Download or read book The Rest Is Noise Series: The Golden Age: Strauss, Mahler, and the Fin de Siecle written by Alex Ross and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2013-01-17 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a chapter from Alex Ross’s groundbreaking history of twentieth-century classical music, ‘The Rest is Noise’. Further extracts are available as digital shorts, accompanying the London Southbank festival programme.