‘A Mosaic, Not a Blend’: A New Portrait of Mahler’s Marriage
Music critic Joseph Horowitz’s first novel is an alchemical quest — to bring memories and accounts from dusty archives to life, and he largely succeeds.
‘The Marriage: The Mahlers in New York’
By Joseph Horowitz
Blackwater Press, 225 pages
Like much of Joseph Horowitz’s work, his new novel, “The Marriage: The Mahlers in New York,” is a refutation of previous histories. The book, which centers on the three years the Austrian composer and his wife spent at New York, offers an iconoclastic perspective on why Mahler never quite clicked with the music establishment here.
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