Mahlerianadj.n.

1939 V. Thomson Let. 20 Mar. in M. S. Lubell et al. Lett. of Composers (1946) 379 The first kind [of sonata form], even in its final Mahlerian decay, retained a spontaneity, a Viennese désinvolture.

1947 D. Newlin Bruckner, Mahler, Schoenberg v. 130 The typically Mahlerian direction..sets the stage for a mysterious march-like beginning, likewise typically Mahlerian.

1962 Listener 25 Oct. 695/1 We hear an eclectic, youthful style penetrated by what we recognize as the unmistakable and emerging Mahlerian voice.

1971 Guardian 17 Apr. 8/1 Does he then consider that composer's [sc. Shostakovitch's] expiatory fifth symphony better music than his weird Mahlerian fourth?

1999 New Yorker 23 Aug. 199/3 Lorin Maazel..elected to conduct the score in a grand, slow, Mahlerian manner.

1955 H. F. Redlich Bruckner & Mahler xiv. 228 The movement is—perhaps for the first time in Mahler's career—like the work of a Mahlerian rather than of Mahler himself.

1959 Listener 27 Aug. 333/2 He [sc. a conductor] was a great Mahlerian.

1986 C. Osborne Giving it Away iv. 244 Barbirolli, John... A distinguished Mahlerian.

1999 Amer. Scholar (Electronic ed.) 68 My Mozartian friend..confided to me that he might actually like Mahler, if it weren't for the Mahlerians.

1949 Music & Lett. 30 391 The numerous musical quotations..are all either square and diatonic.., or Regerish, or Mahlerish, or Hindemithian.

1991 Notes 48 292/2 A set of sixteen character-pieces,..their harmonic moods centering on a Mahlerish late Romanticism.

1926 Musical Q. 12 156 The task of stating the qualifications of the perfect Mahlerite and the attitude by which Mahler can be enjoyed.

1962 Times 2 Feb. 13/2 Mahlerites are likely to owe their allegiance to the prewar gramophone records conducted by Dr. Bruno Walter.

1989 Tempo No. 171. 32/2 One who, a moment before, was still an ardent Mahlerite.