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Year 1895. Letter by Richard Strauss (1864-1949) to Gustav Mahler (1860-1911) ‘Lieber Freund’. Explaining that he cannot help him over Guntram, since Munich has behaved so badly over the opera, that he feels he…

1906 Concert Antwerp 05-03-1906 – Symphony No. 5 Chronology: Year 1906 Location: Royal theater of Antwerp Nature: Fourth subscription concert Program: Mahler, Schubert-Liszt, Chopin, d’Albert, Weber Composition Mahler: Symphony No. 5 Soloist: Eugen d’Albert…

Mahler's Second Symphony in Vienna April 9, 1899 Mahler allowed some of his closest friends to secretly attend the rehearsals of his Second Symphony. The first three movements were rehearsed yesterday, and the fourth…

The morning of March 10, 1906, Mahler visited the moors between Hilversum and Laren with Willem Mengelberg (conductor of the Concertgebouworkest) and Alphons Diepenbrock (composer). This walk gave Hendrik de Booy (a member of…

LIPATTI WITH MENGELBERG On February 16, 1942, Willem Mengelberg conducted the National Radio Orchestra in a second historical concert; the solo part of Liszt’s E flat major concerto was given by Dinu Lipatti. https://www.dinulipatti.org/on-february-16-1942-willem...…

Leonard Bernstein is kissed by his parents after his first concert as conductor of the N.Y. Philharmonic Orchestra