{"id":2101,"date":"2025-11-01T11:07:17","date_gmt":"2025-11-01T10:07:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/oegmw.at\/?post_type=tribe_events&p=2101"},"modified":"2025-11-01T11:07:17","modified_gmt":"2025-11-01T10:07:17","slug":"vienna-mahler-lecture-11","status":"publish","type":"tribe_events","link":"https:\/\/oegmw.at\/en\/veranstaltung\/vienna-mahler-lecture-11","title":{"rendered":"Vienna Mahler Lecture #11"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jeremy Barham: \u201cMahler and Benevolent Shandyan Humour\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

The influence of Anglo-Irish novelist Laurence Sterne (1713\u201368) on later traditions of German romantic literature, philosophy, and irony is evident from the encomia of Goethe, Schiller, Jean Paul, Kant, Schopenhauer, and Nietzsche. Mahler\u2019s enthusiasm for the humour in Sterne\u2019s magnum opus\u00a0Tristram Shandy\u00a0<\/em>(1759\u201367) also places him in a wider context of musico-literary intersections stretching from Scarlatti, CPE Bach, and Haydn, to Beethoven, Wagner, and Wolf. Sterne\u2019s radical comedic deployment of narrative digression, interruption, Illusionsst\u00f6rung, and eccentric prose has particularly strong resonance with Mahler\u2019s subversive musical idiolect. Both share a preoccupation with self-referentiality, using convention against itself, and for intrusive gestures that undermine hermetic systems. Examples demonstrate Mahler\u2019s manipulation of material in Sterne-like musical puns, comic incongruities, and narrative games.<\/p>\n

Jeremy Barham\u00a0<\/strong>is Emeritus Professor of Music at the University of Surrey, UK, where he is also Director of the\u00a0Institute of Austrian and German Music Research<\/a>. He is editor of, and contributor to,\u00a0Perspectives on Gustav Mahler<\/a><\/em>,\u00a0The Cambridge Companion to Mahler<\/a><\/em>,\u00a0Rethinking\u00a0Mahler<\/a><\/em>, and the\u00a0Nineteenth-Century Music Review\u00a0<\/em>journal issue\u00a0\u2018<\/a>Mahler: Centenary Commentaries on Musical Meaning<\/a>\u2019<\/a>. His most recent publications include the guest-edited issue of\u00a019th-Century\u00a0Music\u00a0<\/em>\u2018Mahler, Sex, and Gender<\/a>\u2019, and\u00a0The Routledge\u00a0Companion to Global Film Music in the Early Sound Era<\/a>\u00a0<\/em>(both 2024). He is currently working on a volume of translated Russian scholarship on Mahler, and a journal issue for\u00a0Music, Sound, and the Moving Imag<\/em>e on the use of Mahler\u2019s music in film prior to Visconti\u2019s\u00a0Death in Venice<\/em>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Jeremy Barham: \u201cMahler and Benevolent Shandyan Humour\u201d The influence of Anglo-Irish novelist Laurence Sterne (1713\u201368) on later traditions of German romantic literature, philosophy, and irony is evident from the encomia […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"default","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"set","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"_tribe_events_status":"","_tribe_events_status_reason":"","footnotes":""},"tags":[83],"tribe_events_cat":[12],"class_list":["post-2101","tribe_events","type-tribe_events","status-publish","hentry","tag-mahler","tribe_events_cat-gastvortrag","cat_gastvortrag"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oegmw.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/2101","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/oegmw.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/oegmw.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/tribe_events"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oegmw.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/30"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/oegmw.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/2101\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2103,"href":"https:\/\/oegmw.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/2101\/revisions\/2103"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oegmw.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oegmw.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2101"},{"taxonomy":"tribe_events_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oegmw.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events_cat?post=2101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}