• Profession: Dr, Polyhistor (From Latin polyhistōr (“very learned”), from Hellenistic Ancient Greek πολυΐστωρ (poluḯstōr, “greatly learned”)).
• Residences: Oed (near Waldegg, south west of Vienna), Budapest, Vienna
• Relation to Mahler: Friend
• Correspondence with Mahler:
• Correspondence about Ebner:
  • 29-06-1890

Sigmund Singer (1850-1913)

• Profession: Budapest correspondent for Neue Freie Presse and later chief editor of the Pester Lloyd, journalist, lawyer, publicist and politician.
• Residences: Budapest
• Relation to Mahler: Friend
• Correspondence with Mahler: 
• Born: 22-10-1850 (1851) Papa, Hungary
• Address:

• Profession: Student, friend
• Relation to Mahler: Pupil of Gustav Mahler at the Conservatory of Vienna in Year 1878. Blumine.
• Correspondence with Mahler: 
• Born: 00-00-1866
• Marriage: Jenny Feld married a sales representative from Seneca Falls, New York

Albine Adler (1870-1927)

• Profession: 
• Relation to Mahler: Childhood friend in Jihlava
• Correspondence with Mahler: 
• Parents: Juda Münzer en Ludmila Münzer 
• Born: 00-00-1870
• Brothers: 4 (Munzer)
• Sisters: 1 (Munz)
• Married:
  • In 1890: Dr. Alfred Pollak (1853-1896, aged 43).
  • In

• Profession: Speech therapist.
• Relation to Mahler: Friend.
• Correspondence with Mahler: 
• Born: 22-07-1868 Briele, the Netherlands. Lived in House Annastate, Hintham 17-19, Den Bosch.
• Married:

Nina Hoffmann-Matscheko (1844-1914).

• Profession: Austrian writer, translator, philanthropist and social worker.
• Residences: Vienna.
• Relation to Mahler: Friend, Otto Mahler (1873-1895), Fyodor Dostoyevsky (1821-1881). 
• Correspondence with Mahler: 
• Born: 03-02-1844 Vienna.
• Address: 1894: Theresianengasse No. 6, 3th

Moritz Baumgarten.

Year 1879.

• 1879-1879 House Moritz Baumgarten Teteny.
• Mahler was piano teacher for Herr Baumgarten’s three sons and he had to satisfy the family’s “musical enthusiasm”.
• He gave Mahler his first summer job.
• Attended

No photo.

• Profession: Violinist.
• Relation to Mahler: Worked with Gustav Mahler.
• Correspondence with Mahler:
• Born: Unknown.
• Died: Unknown.
• Buried: Unknown.

1. 1876 Concert Jihlava 31-07-1876 – Sonata for violin and piano (Premiere, piano).

Student friend from Jihlava.… Read More

• Profession: Violinist.
• Relation to Mahler: Worked with Gustav Mahler, friend.
• Correspondence with Mahler:
• Born: 17-08-1851 Zlutice, Czech Republic.
• Died: 09-01-1939 Ljubljana, Slovenia.
• Buried: 00-00-0000 Unknown.

1. 02-04-1882 Year 1882 c016. 1882 Concert Ljubljana 02-04-1882 (piano).

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• Profession: Bass.
• Relation to Mahler: Worked with Gustav Mahler.
• Correspondence with Mahler:
• Born: 29-05-1853 Karda, Sweden.
• Address: 1886-1886 House Gustav Mahler Prague – Langegasse No. 18 (Blue rose house).
• Died: 04-12-1910 Vaxje, Sweden. Aged 57.

• Profession: Alto.
• Relation to Mahler: Worked with Gustav Mahler.
• Correspondence with Mahler:
• Born: 02-12-1879 Vienna, Austria. Married name Haydter.
• Married Alexander Haydter (1872-1919).
• Died: 04-03-1948 Vienna, Austria. Aged 68.
• Buried: 09-03-1948 Meidling cemetery, Vienna, Austria.

• Profession: Owner sugar factory, businessman and mayor of Hodonin. Great patron of the arts and collector. Advised by Carl Julius Rudolf Moll (1861-1945).
• Relation to Mahler: Gustav Mahler and finished the composition of Das

Fomerius Hellebrand (1856-1912)

• Profession: Pastor.
• Relation to Mahler: Pastor Petrus Fomerius Hellebrand led Gustav Mahlers’ funeral service but did not know him. The only thing we know is that within a year he was found dead himself at

• Profession: Actuary, Singer, Songwriter, composer, conductor.
• Relation to Mahler: Friend, turned pages 11-08-1883. See Year 1883.
• Correspondence with Mahler:
• Father: Owner of Hotel Zu den drei Fursten (Masarykovo square Nos. 44/1189, Hauptplatz No. 371), Jihlava.
• Born:

• Profession: Historian, poet, dramatist.
• Residences: Vienna, I, Elisabethstrasse No. 1. Mahler played the piano here before 05-1877 (Year 1877).
• Relation to Mahler: Pernerstorfer Circle (member). 
• Correspondence with Mahler: 
• Born: 01-10-1852

• Profession: Doctor of Medicine. Bacteriologist.
• Residences: Vienna, Munich.
• Relation to Mahler: Pernerstorfer Circle (member).
• Correspondence with Mahler:
• Born: 06-07-1853 Vienna, Austria.
• Died: 16-09-1927 Berchtesgaden, Germany.
• Buried: Unknown.

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• Profession: Historian, journalist, politician.
• Residences: Vienna.
• Relation to Mahler: Pernerstorfer Circle (member).
• Correspondence with Mahler:
• Born: 18-01-1851 Rostin, Czech Republic.
• Died: 14-07-1920 Vienna, Austria. Aged 70.
• Buried: 16-07-1920 Central cemetery, Vienna, Austria. Old Jewish

• Profession: Pianist, conductor.
• Residences: Berlin, Vienna, Hamburg, New York, Beverly Hills.
• Relation to Mahler: Friend, Pernerstorfer Circle (member). Worked with Gustav Mahler in Hamburg 1894-1896 and from 1901 in Vienna.
• Correspondence with Mahler: Yes.

• Profession: Baritone. Leading Baritone at the Vienna Hofoper from 1903 until his death.
• Residences: Hamburg, Berlin, Vienna.
• Relation to Mahler: Invited by Gustav Mahler to join the Vienna Hofoper in 1903. He sang the world premieres

• Profession: Captain in a Leipzig regiment, writer.
• See: Familytree von Weber.
• Grandson of Carl Maria von Weber (1786-1826).
• Married to Marion von Weber-Schwabe (1856-1931).
• Relation to Mahler: Die Drei Pintos, Compositions unfinished,

• Profession: Housewife.
• See: Familytree von Weber.
• Married to Karl von Weber (1849-1897).
• Relation to Mahler: Love affair with Gustav Mahler (1888). See Love life.
• House Marion von Weber-Schwabe (1856-1931)
• House Karl and

Minnie Untermyer-Carl (1857-1924)

• Profession: 
• Residences: New York.
• Relation to Mahler: Friend, financier New York Philharmonic Orchestra (NYPO/NPO).
• Correspondence with Mahler:
• Born: 09-06-1857 St Louis, Missouri, America.
• Married: 09-08-1880 Samuel Untermyer (1858-1940).
• Address: 675 5th Avenue, New

• Profession: Biographer Gustav Mahler.
• Residences: Vienna.
• Relation to Mahler:
• Correspondence with Mahler:
• Born: 25-11-1879 Brno, Czech Republic.
• Died: 12-11-1943 New York, America.
• Buried: Unknown.

See also Robert Hirschfeld (1858-1914) and Paul Stauber (1876-1918).

Paul Stefan, … Read More

Nina Spiegler (Lipiner-Hoffmann) (1855-1937).

• Profession: 
• Residences: Vienna.
• Relation to Mahler: Pernerstorfer Circle (member). Albert Spiegler (1856-1940) and Nina Spiegler (Lipiner-Hoffmann) (1855-1937) were the ‘inner circle’ of Gustav Mahler in Vienna, friend.
• Correspondence with Mahler: Yes.
  • 00-00-0000,

Albert Spiegler (1856-1940).

• Profession: Doctor of Medicine.
• Residences: Vienna.
• Relation to Mahler: Close friend, Pernerstorfer Circle (member).
• Correspondence with Mahler:
  
  • 03-04-1896 Hamburg: Letter from Natalie Bauer-Lechner (1858-1921) and Gustav Mahler (1860-1911) in Hamburg (1895-1897

• Profession: Writer, musicologist, first biographer Gustav Mahler (1905). Published the first large biography 1913 in Berlin..
• Residences: Vienna.
• Relation to Mahler: Biographer Gustav Mahler. Gustav Mahler Festival Amsterdam 1920.
• Correspondence with Mahler: Yes.
  • 00-00-0000, Year 

• Profession: Tenor, actor.
• Residences: Vienna, Berlin, New York.
• Relation to Mahler: Worked with Gustav Mahler.
• Correspondence with Mahler: Yes.
  1. 30-08-1903 Year 1903 Maiernigg: Letter to Leo Slezak (1873-1946).
  2. 00-08-1903 Year 1903 Vienna: Letter to Leo

Arnold Schoenberg (1874-1951).

• Profession: Composer. 
• Residences: Berlin, Vienna.
• Relation to Mahler:
• Correspondence with Mahler: Yes
  1. 13-12-1904 Year 1904 Vienna: Letter to Arnold Schoenberg (1874-1951).
  2. 15-01-1905 Year 1905 Vienna: Letter to Arnold Schoenberg (1874-1951).
  3. 31-08-1906 Year 1906 Worthersee:

• Profession: Tenor.
• Residences: Vienna.
• Relation to Mahler:
• Correspondence with Mahler:
• Born: 27-08-1868 Gentofte, Denmark.
• Died: 21-03-1931 Vienna, Austria.
• Buried: Gentofte church cemetery, Gentofte, Denmark.

1. 1902 Concert Vienna 20-01-1902 – Symphony No. 4, Das klagende Lied.
2. 1905

• Profession: Conductor.
• Residences: Vienna.
• Relation to Mahler: 
• Correspondence with Mahler: Yes
  1. 00-02-1898 Year 1908 Vienna: Letter to Franz Schalk (1863-1931).
  2. 00-02-1898 Year 1898 Vienna: Letter to Franz Schalk (1863-1931).
  3. 00-00-1899 Year 1899 Vienna: Letter to 

• Profession: Graphic, Stagedesigner: Secession (members), Vienna State Opera (Hofoper, Wiener Staatsoper), New York Metropolitan Opera (MET).
• Residences: Vienna, New York.
• Relation to Mahler: Stagedesigner for Gustav Mahler in Vienna and New York.
• Correspondence

Johanna Richter (1858-1943).

• Profession: Soprano.
• Residences: Kassel, Rotterdam (1886), Cologne (1888).
• Relation to Mahler: Love affair with Gustav Mahler in Kassel (1883-1884). An ardent, but ultimately unfulfilled, love affair with soprano Johanna Richter led Mahler to

Josephine Poisl (1860- after 1880).

• Profession: Unknown.
• Residences: Jihlava (Iglau).
• Relation to Mahler: Love affair with Gustav Mahler in Year 1879 and Year 1880.
• Correspondence with Mahler: Yes, Poems.
• Born: 1860.
• Father: Poisl. Postmaster, Office No.

• Profession: Jounalist Deutsche Worte, politician (social democrat), publicist
• Residences: Vienna.
• Relation to Mahler: Pernerstorfer circle, Members of the Pernerstorfer circle.
• Correspondence with Mahler:
• Born: 27-04-1850 Vienna, Austria.
• Died: 06-01-1918 Vienna, Austria. Aged 67.
• Buried:

• Profession: Mezzo-soprano, alto, singing teacher.
• Residences: Vienna.
• Relation to Mahler: Friend.
• Correspondence with Mahler:
• Born: 18-09-1858 Baden, Austria.
• Address: IV, Frankenberggasse No. 7, Vienna (Ludwig Karpath (1866-1936) lived at Frankenberggasse No. 3, Vienna).
• Died: 09-02-1932

• Profession: Soprano.
• Residences: Bremen, Frankfurt, Hannover, Karlsruhe, Kassel, Cologne, Leipzig, Munich, Weimar, Vienna.
• Relation to Mahler: Love affair with Gustav Mahler in Kassel (1882), worked with Gustav Mahler.
• Correspondence with Mahler:
• Born: 31-12-1848 New York, America.

Margarethe Rita Merlitschek-Michalek (1875-1944).

• Profession: Mezzo-soprano, soprano, singing teacher.
• Residences: Vienna
• Relation to Mahler: Love affair with Gustav Mahler (1901). Also: Rita.
• Correspondence with Mahler:
• Born: 05-02-1875 Dobling, Vienna, Austria.
• Died: 20-07-1944 Vienna, Austria. Aged 69.
• Buried: 26-07-1944 Central

• Profession: Bass.
• Residences: Vienna, London, New York.
• Relation to Mahler: Descovered by Mahler.
• Correspondence with Mahler:
• Born: 18-11-1877 Salzburg, Austria.
• Died: 01-12-1935 Vienna, Austria.
• Buried: St Peter’s churchyard, Petersfriedhof, Salzburg, Austria.

1. 1910 Concert Munich 12-09-1910

Friedrich Fritz Lohr (1859-1924).

• Profession: Archaeologist, philosopher, private teacher.
• Residences: Vienna,
• Relation to Mahler: Lifelong friend, Pernerstorfer Circle (member). A close friend of the Mahler family since their days at the University of Vienna (Dr-Karl-Lueger-Ring), Lohr worked

• Profession: Philosopher, writer, poet, bookseller, library council, government council.
• Residences: Vienna.
• Relation to Mahler: Close friend, Pernerstorfer Circle (member)
• Correspondence with Mahler: Yes
• Born: 24-10-1856 Jaroslaw, Poland.
• Died: 30-12-1911 Vienna, Austria. A few months after Gustav Mahler.

• Profession: Soprano, mezzo-soprano.
• Residences: Hamburg (1895, study), Vienna (1899-1927).
• Relation to Mahler: Love affair with Gustav Mahler (Spring 1900). Trip to Venice.
• Correspondence with Mahler: Yes
• Born: 16-10-1874 Bialia, Austria.
• Husband: Josef von Halban (1870-1937),

Erich Wolfgang Korngold (1897-1957).

• Profession: Composer.
• Residences: Vienna.
• Relation to Mahler: In 1909 Gustav Mahler recognized his talent and advised him to study with Alexander von Zemlinsky (1871-1942). Korngold also visited Gustav Mahler (1860-1911) in his hotel in

1909. Oskar Kokoschka (1886-1980).

• Profession: Painter, poet, playwright.
• Residences: Vienna, Prague.
• Relation to Mahler: Love affair with Alma Mahler (1879-1964).
• Correspondence with Mahler: 
• Born: 01-03-1886 Pochlarn, Austria.
• Died: 22-02-1980 Montreux, Switzerland.
• Buried: Clarens cemetery, Clarens, Vaud, Switzerland.

• Fragment

Gustav Klimt (1862-1918).

• Profession: Painter. Secession (member).
• Residences: Vienna.
• Relation to Mahler: Love affair with Alma Schindler.
• Correspondence with Mahler: 
• Born: 14-07-1862 Baumgarten, Austria.
• Died: 06-02-1918 Vienna, Austria. Aged 55.
• Buried: 09-02-1918 Hietzing cemetery, Vienna, Austria. Grave

Otto Klemperer (1885-1973).

• Profession: Conductor.
• Residences: Frankfurt, Berlin, Los Angeles, Budapest, London.
• Relation to Mahler: Friend.
• Correspondence with Mahler:
• Born: 14-05-1885 Breslau/Wroclaw, Poland.
• Died: 06-07-1973 Zurich, Switzerland. Aged 88.
• Buried: Jewish cemetery, Oberer Friesberg, Zurich, Switzerland.

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Paul Kammerer (1880-1926).

• Profession: Biologist, bacteriologist, society figure.
• Residences: Vienna.
• Relation to Mahler: Love affair with Alma Schindler.
• Correspondence with Mahler: 
• Born: 17-08-1880 Vienna, Austria.
• Died: 23-09-1926 City of Puchberg, Austria. Shot himself in the head.
• Buried: Unknown.

• Profession: Theologian.
• Residences: Vienna
• Relation to Mahler: Love affair with Alma Mahler (1879-1964).
• Correspondence with Mahler: 
• Born: 14-03-1895 Linz, Austria.
• Died: 01-02-1971 Linz, Austria.
• Buried: Unknown.

1919 Ordination, 1920 Promotion, 1923 Professor at Sankt Florian. See Anton … Read More

Laura Hilgermann (1865-1945).

• Profession: Alto, mezzo-soprano.
• Residences: Prague, Budapest, Vienna.
• Relation to Mahler: Mahler engaged her in February 1890 at the Royal Opera in Budapest. In 1900 appointed by Gustav Mahler at the Vienna Court Opera.
• Correspondence with Mahler: 

• Profession: Publisher, Director of Universal Edition (UE) music publishers.
• Residences: Budapest, Vienna.
• Relation to Mahler: 
• Correspondence with Mahler: Yes.
  • 26-07-1909, Year 1909.
  • 12-08-1910. Year 1910.
• Born: 03-08-1869 Budapest, Hungary.
• Died: 09-05-1932 Vienna, Austria.

Paul Hammerschlag (1860-1933)

• Profession: Mahlers Banker.
• Residences: Vienna.
• Relation to Mahler: Friend.
• Correspondence with Mahler: Yes.
  • 00-00-0000, Year 
• Born: 07-07-1860 Vienna, Austria.
• Died: 24-06-1933 Vienna, Austria. Aged 73.
• Buried: 27-06-1933, Vienna, Austria. Cremation.

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