The Marriage

Praise for The Marriage: "Horowitz is a master of passionate scholarship. His deep historical knowledge blends with his narrative imagination to bring to life the very air his characters breathed." --Antonio Munoz Molina, winner of the Jerusalem Prize; "Joe Horowitz's The Marriage portrays Mahler with more power and poignancy than anyone else ever has." --JoAnn Falletta, music director, the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra; "Where biographers and other musicologists have struggled, Joseph Horowitz succeeds brilliantly in revealing the inner Gustav Mahler in this powerful and moving novel." --Richard Aldous, author of Tunes of Glory: The Life of Malcolm Sargent; "If we want to get closer to the "truth" of Mahler and his music, if we hope to improve our understanding of the person and his creations, we need to acknowledge the role our imagination must play in the learning process. In the case of Mahler, the essential facts have long been known. What we need now are fresh attempts to conceive what further truths they might contain. Joseph Horowitz's brilliant novel reveals much to us about who Mahler was, what he accomplished, and how he related to his world. Readers will be as eager to study it as they would any biography, and they can expect to learn as much."-- Charles Yuma's, Professor of Musicology, Penn State University; "Persuasive and fair. It is refreshing to see this chapter of Gustav Mahler's biography from an American perspective, written by someone not automatically biased in favor of Europe." --Karol Berger, author of Beyond Reason: Wagner contra Nietzsche; Osqood Hooker Professor in Fine Arts, Stanford University