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‘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.

Moritz Nähr via Wikimedia Commons
Gustav Mahler at Vienna, 1907. Moritz Nähr via Wikimedia Commons
ERIK DEN BREEJEN
ERIK DEN BREEJEN

‘The Marriage: The Mahlers in New York’
By Joseph Horowitz
Blackwater Press,‎ 225 pages

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ERIK DEN BREEJEN
ERIK DEN BREEJEN

Erik den Breejen is a painter, writer, and occasional musician based at Brooklyn, New York. His work has been exhibited at galleries including Miles McEnery and Freight + Volume. He also teaches color theory. erikdenbreejen.com

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