Elisabeth Kappel

For admirers of Gustav Mahler's masterpiece 8th Symphony, editor Elisabeth Kappel and the Studien zur Wertungsforschung present a compilation of essays, which discuss the great work in various context...

Musical practice is permeated by valuation and judgment. Audiences judge performers and composers; performers dote on and honour certain works while disregarding others; composers respect audiences or...

In his essay from 1885, Hausegger examines how valuations form and establish themselves, spread out, change and replace each other. They exist from reflection as well as arguments and are completely m...