Gustav Mahler

1. What did Mahler look like?: an attempt at a description

2. Small steps: Kalischt and Iglau (1860-75)

3. Studies in Vienna (1875-80)

4. The summer conductor: Bad Hall (1880)

5. Emotional ups and downs in Laibach (1881-2)

6. For the last time in the provinces: Olmütz (1882-3)

7. Presentiment and a new departure: Kassel (1883-5)

8. The avid reader: Mahler and literature

9. Becoming Mahler: Prague (1885-6)

10. The first symphony

11. Life's vicissitudes: Leipzig (1886-8)

12. Notes on Mahler's songs

13. Lowland dreams: Budapest (1888-91)

14. The conductor

15. The second symphony

16. Self-realization: Hamburg (1891-7)

17. Jewishness and identity

18. The third symphony

19. The god of the southern climes: Vienna (1897-1901)

20. Mahler's illnesses: a pathographical sketch

21. The fourth symphony

22. Vienna in 1900: Alma as a young woman (1901-3)

23. The fifth symphony

24. "Nothing is lost to you": faith and philosophy

25. The sixth symphony

26. Opera reform, early years of marriage, Mahler's compositional method (1903-5)

27. The seventh symphony

28. The administrator, contemporaries, signs of crisis (1905-7)

29. The eighth symphony

30. Annus terribilis (1907)

31. Das Lied von der Erde

32. Starting afresh: New York (1908-11)

33. The ninth symphony

34. Crisis and culmination (1910)

35. The fragmentary tenth symphony

36. "My heart is weary": the farewell

37. Mahler and posterity.