Slovenly Betsy: The American Struwwelpeter While his mature work foreshadowed

While his mature work foreshadowed radical elements of modern music — particularly the dissolution of tonality — Mahler's first symphonies were written in a relatively traditional programmatic style with a strong spiritual element

The work is reproduced here from the authoritative Litolff edition and appears in full score with bar-numbered movements for easy reference

the 131 poems in this volume range in date from 1770 to 1903

physical approach

spiritual path

Slovenly Betsy: The American Struwwelpeter While his mature work foreshadowedSlovenly Betsy, Proud Phoebe, Lazy Charlotte, and other naughty girls get their comeuppance in these darkly humorous fables by Heinrich Hoffmann, the author of Struwwelpeter (Shock headed Peter). Hoffmann's Slovenly Betsy features the same hilarious approach to manners and morals as its famous predecessor. Adults and children alike will revel in these quaintly illustrated rhyming stories of bad habits and their dire consequences. More than 40 full