Abstract
Seeing Mahler: Music and the Language of Antisemitism in Fin-de-Siècle Vienna, by K.M. Knittel. Burlington, VT: Ashland Publishing, 2010. 201 pp.
Author Biography
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Daniel N. Leeson
Daniel N. Leeson’s degrees are in mathematics. Retiring after a 30-year career with the IBM Corporation, he then taught mathematics at De Anza College in Cupertino, California for an additional 15 years. During these 45 years, he was also a professional symphonic performer with the San Jose Symphony, the San Francisco Opera, the San Diego Symphony, the San Jose/Cleveland Ballet, and a number of other groups. His instruments were clarinet, bass clarinet, and basset horn. His interest in musicology has resulted in more than 75 technical papers, and he is coeditor, along with Neal Zaslaw, of the volume of the Neue Mozart Augabe that contains the wind serenades. Leeson is now retired and lives in Palo Alto, California. He is married to the former Rosanne Dryfuss, has two children, and one grandchild. In his retirement, Leeson continues to research in historical musicology. His books include: The Mozart Cache, Gran Partitta, and Opus Ultimum: The Story of the Mozart Requiem. He is the owner of one of only two authentic portraits of Mozart’s mother, as described in the 2011 issue of Acta Mozartiana.
