Dr. Leah Batstone will discuss her new book In Search of Malher’s Nietzche which examines how Nietzschean ideas influenced the composition of Mahler's first four, so-called Wunderhorn, symphonies. Dr. Batstone is a Musicologist specializing in the convergences of political revolution and musical innovation in Central and Eastern Europe.

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