The Man – Mahler Foundation

Awards

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23-06-1876 Vienna: 1876 Concert Vienna 23-06-1876 (piano). Wins first prize for piano at Vienna Conservatory for performance of a Schubert sonata in A minor.
00-05-1900 Vienna: Serbian decoration due to the presence of Alexander of Serbia.
13-10-1903 Vienna: Orden

Fan blade

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Autograph Musical Quotation on Enormous Wooden Fan Blade.

Oversize decorative fan leaf, measuring 2 FEET (60 cm.) in length, inscribed by Mahler with an autograph musical quotation of original music, two measures in Bb, signed “Romigio [Rome] / Gustav Mahler.” … Read More

Works of Art

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Concerto by Giorgione (1478-1510). Engraving. A reproduction hung above Mahlers’ piano.

Bruno Walter (1876-1962): “I entered his room and immediately I saw Giorgione’s Concerto, which hung above the piano – a good reproduction. A picture had never appealed to … Read More

Favorite composers and compositions

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Christoph Willibald von Gluck (1714-1787).
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827). Coriolan Overture.
Richard Wagner (1813-1883).

Recollections Alma Mahler

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Alma Mahler (1879-1964).

Fragment (Audio, English, duration 02:32): Alma Mahler (1879-1964) about Gustav Mahler (and Gustave Charpentier (1860-1956)‘s “Louise”).
Fragment (Audio, German, duration 14:23): Alma Mahler (1879-1964) about the trophies in her house and about Gustav Mahler (1860-1911)

Last notes

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There survives a heart-rending document from this final stage of Gustav Mahler (1860-1911)‘s illness.

It was probably the last thing he ever wrote and appears on the back of a note in Alma Mahler (1879-1964)´s hand, itself a … Read More

Sports

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Hiking.
Swimming.
Bicycle. See Wilhelm Zinne (1858-1934).

Bicycle owned by the Gustav Mahler Vereinigung Hamburg.

Reading

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Gustav Mahler’s reading was wide-ranging, extending, as it did, from the classics of world literature to rather more recondite works. Apart from occasional glances as far back as the ancient Greeks and, in particular, to Euripides, Shakespeare was the earliest … Read More

Terminology

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Terminology from Mahler Symphonies

away ( Sordinen ab = mutes off)

abdämpfen

dampen down

aber

but

aber deutlich

but clearly, articulate

aber nicht eilen

but don’t rush

aber wuchtiger

but weightier, heavier

abwechselnd

alternating

alle

tutti

alle Betonungen consequent

Legal

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Gustav Mahler (1860-1911)

Gustav Mahler (1860-1911) and Alma Mahler (1879-1964)

Marriage.

Alma Mahler (1879-1964)

1930: Hans Gu?rtler was an attorney in Vienna. Kallir was an art dealer and a friend of

Finances

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Year 1880:

Contract with Lewy music publishers to represent him in Bad Hall, Ljubljana, Olomouc and Kassel. Period 1880-1885. Cost 5%.

Year 1889:

Legacy parents (11-10-1889). 15.000 Gulden for the house and 3.500 Gulden for

Marriage

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Wedding card Gustav Mahler (1860-1911) and Alma Mahler (1879-1964).

Wedding card Gustav Mahler (1860-1911) and Alma Mahler (1879-1964) (detail).

Year 1902, 09-03-1902.
Karlskirche, Vienna, Austria.
Private meeting. Only four people present. Alma Mahler (1879-1964) is pregnant. But

Death mask

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Alfred Roller (1864-1935), one of Mahler’s best friends, described Mahler’s appearance: “When, on the morning after the night he died, I took my leave of Mahler’s mortal remains, his features still bore the agony of his long struggle with … Read More

Wills

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Dated 29-06-1891

Gustav Mahler (1860-1911)‘s will, dated Perchtoldsdorf (Vienna), 29-06-1891 (Year 1891) and witnessed by Dr. Emil Freund (1858-1928). Mein letzter Wille! Mahler leaves:

Justine (Ernestine) Rose-Mahler (1868-1938): two-thirds of his estate,
Emma Marie Eleanor

Gustav Mahler-Alfred Rosé Collection – Inventory

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1.0 Mahler letters and Mahler documents (original donation)

1.1 Letters from Mahler

E6-MC-325. Gustav Mahler to Bela Diossy. 26-06-1896. GMB 178.

E6-MC-326. Gustav Mahler to Heinrich Krzyzanowski (1855-1933). … Read More

Hair

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Envelope containing a lock of Mahler’s hair folded in blue tissue paper. Envelope inscribed by Justine (Ernestine) Rose-Mahler (1868-1938): “Ein Haarlocken von Gustav Mahler”.

Gustav Mahler-Alfred Rosé Collection – University of Western Ontario, Music Library, Canada.… Read More

Education

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see Gustav Mahler (1860-1911).

Glasses

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Glasses. Médiathèque Musicale Mahler.

Glasses. Case Philipp Emmerich, Munchen, Maximilianstrasse 41. Médiathèque Musicale Mahler.

Batons

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Baton of Gustav Mahler (1860-1911), Médiathèque Musicale Mahler, Paris. Gift for the friend Henry-Louis de La Grange (1924-2017) the last baton of Gustav Mahler. Alma Mahler (1879-1964). Case.

Baton of Gustav Mahler (1860-1911), Médiathèque Musicale Mahler… Read More

Fountain pen

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Fountain pen. Médiathèque Musicale Mahler.

Fountain pen. Médiathèque Musicale Mahler.… Read More

Inspiration

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“My music is always the voice of nature sounding in tone…”

“The Bohemian music of my childhood home has found its way into many of my compositions.”

Exercise as Inspiration

Mahler was a great health enthusiast, including physical activity in … Read More

Pianos

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Piano of his grandfather Abraham Herrmann (1807-1868). Location: House Abraham Herrmann I (House No. 203). In the loft Gustav found a piano in storage and began to make music.

Vopaterny grand piano. Location: 1860-1872 House Gustav Mahler Jihlava … Read More

Clothing

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Year 1900. Gustav Mahler presented this cap to the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra (VPO) after the successful guest appearances in Paris in June 1900.

Press

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Newspapers by Location

Austria – Vienna

Caricatures in

Der Floh
Humoristische

Grave

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Gravestone Gustav Mahler, Vienna, Grinzing cemetery, Vienna.
Also in this grave: Maria Anna Mahler (Putzi) (1902-1907).
See also: Gustav Mahler funeral.
Later a simple grave stone was placed, designed by Josef Hoffmann (1870-1956), who was also

Doodles

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Doodles by Gustav Mahler (1860-1911).

One of Gustav Mahler (1860-1911)‘s doodles on a postcard of the Vienna State Opera (Hofoper, Wiener Staatsoper).

Doodle by Gustav Mahler (1860-1911) on blotting paper.… Read More

Sculpture (August Rodin and Anna Mahler)

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Alma Mahler (1879-1964)‘s father-in-law, the painter Carl Julius Rudolf Moll (1861-1945), wanted Auguste Rodin (1840-1917) to portray Gustav Mahler (1860-1911) as a tribute to the musician following his … Read More

Paintings, drawings and silhouettes

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In order of year.
See also: Cartoons and caricatures.
See also: Sculpture.
Photos can be found in the Chronology.

Year 1888. Drawing. Artist unknown. Probably in Budapest.

Year 1888. Engraving by Zsigmond Pollak, 03-11-1888.

Year … Read More

Quotes

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“Tradition is not the worship of ashes, but the preservation of fire.”

“My music is always the voice of nature sounding in tone…”

“The Bohemian music of my childhood home has found its way into many of my compositions.”

“Always … Read More

Photos

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Photos of Gustav Mahler can be found in the specific year of the Chronology.

Cartoons and caricatures

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In order of year.
See also: Paintings, drawings and silhouettes.
See also: Sculpture.
Photos can be found in the Chronology.

Year 1889. Poking fun at Mahler’s conducting at the premiere of his Symphony No. 1… Read More

Food and drink

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Poems

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Poems by Gustav Mahler (1860-1911).

Influential poets (in order of birth):

Friedrich Klopstock (1724-1803).
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832).
Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller (1759-1805).
Jean Paul (1763-1825).
Johann Christian Friedrich Hölderlin (1770-1843).
Clemens Brentano

Theosophy

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Occultism was thriving in fin-de-siècle Vienna when Mahler was about forty years old.

There was more to turn-of-the-century Vienna than sometimes meets the scholarly eye. In addition to the kinds of figures and topics that tend to reinforce “legitimate” areas … Read More

Vegetarianism

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Mahler’s vegetarianism is documented in his letters:

1. “The following season proved a very gloomy one for Mahler. Once more the “city of music” could furnish him no greater material consolation than that of a few piano-pupils. Evenings he would … Read More

Religion

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On 23-02-1897 (Year 1897) Gustav Mahler walked into the St. Michael’s church small (Hamburg) and was “received” or baptized into the Roman Catholic faith. The rite of conversion, Mahler believed would clear away a major stumbling block as … Read More

Last sketch book

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A group of sketches is found in the Theatermuseum (theatre collection) in Vienna, as part of the estate of the singer Anna Bahr-von Mildenburg (1872-1947). They are contained in a sketchbook that Mahler probably used at the very end of … Read More

Signature

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Year 1894. Signature Gustav Mahler (1860-1911). 18-12-1894 Hamburg, Sign off Manuscript Symphony No. 2.

Year 1898. Signature Gustav Mahler (1860-1911).

Year 1899. Signature Gustav Mahler (1860-1911). 19-02-1899 Vienna, Restaurant Meissl und Schaden.… Read More

Business card

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Business card Kapellmeister Gustav Mahler (1860-1911). Printed visiting card signed and inscribed (‘Mahler’) with a fifteen-line autograph message to a conductor, conceding that he has annoyed him for some time, and that he has been buffeted by the waves … Read More

Monogram

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Letter monogram Gustav Mahler (1860-1911) by Alfred Roller (1864-1935).

However, this monogram is disputed. “AM” (Alma) more likely than “GM”

Recollections

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1923 – Erinnerungen an Gustav Mahler by Natalie Bauer-Lechner (1858-1921). In Médiathèque Musicale Mahler.
Fragment (Audio, German, duration 01:55): Anna Justine Mahler (Gucki) (1904-1988) about her mother Alma Mahler (1879-1964).
Fragment (Audio, German, duration 02:51): Anna Justine

Recordings Welte-Mignon

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Year 1905.
09-11-1905.
Gustav Mahler (1860-1911) plays the piano at the Welte-Mignon recording studio in Leipzig, Germany.
Leipzig.
Welte-Mignon.
System: Mignon rot.
Firma: Welte (1904-ca. 1932).
Recorded on piano rolls.
Four rolls, Four recordings.
Total

Friends

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Friends (tags).

Appearance

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Natalie Bauer-Lechner (1858-1921) (published 1923)

Mahler, whose outward appearance gives so much cause for criticism, used to reply to reproaches about it: ‘I can’t live an aesthetic life; my personality and temperament are otherwise inclined. And if I weren’t what … Read More

Conducting style

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Year 1901. Der fliegende Blatter, March 1901, by Hans Schliessmann (1852-1920).

Amsterdam

During the fourth visit of Gustav Mahler to Amsterdam, the Concertgebouw Orchestra performed with him his Seventh Symphony. On 1909 Concert Amsterdam 03-10-1909 – Symphony No. … Read More

Music publishers

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Bote & Bock music publishers

1909: Pocket score of Symphony No. 7.

Bussjager & Rattig music publishers (Vienna)

1880: Bruckner – Symphony No. 3 in D minor, arr. piano duet

Doblinger music publishers (Vienna and Munich)

1902: Symphony No. 4

Love life

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1878 (Humpolec/Zeliv)

Marie Freund (0000-1880).

1880 (Jihlava)

Josephine Poisl (1860- after 1880).

1881-1884/1885 (Ljubljana and Kassel)

Johanna Richter (1858-1943).

1886 (Prague)

Betty Frank (1864-0000).

1888 (Leipzig)

Marion von Weber-Schwabe (1856-1931).

1888-1901 (Leipzig, Budapest and Vienna)… Read More

Health

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Medical file Gustav Mahler (1860-1911)

Born: 07-07-1860 Kaliste, House Gustav Mahler Kaliste 1860 (Birthplace, house No. 9), Czech Republic, Year 1860.
Father: Bernard Mahler (1827-1889).
Mother: Marie Mahler-Herrmann (1837-1889).
Hereditary diseases: Mother and possibly siblings: Heart

Correspondence sources

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1. Correspondence

Correspondence (Tags)

2. The Mahler Family Letters

One day it might become possible to embark upon a complete edition of Mahler’s letters. Those currently published are scattered in various states of textual completeness among a number of volumes, … Read More

Pernerstorfer circle

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The Pernerstorfer Circle was a group of late- 19th-century Viennese intellectuals who developed and shared a collective outlook. This outlook strongly influenced their individual activities within their own specialties, including … Read More