Year 1891
Gustav Mahler aged 31. 17. Budapest. In February Graf Geza Vasony-Teo von Zichy (1849-1924) became the new head of the Royal Opera and plotted to remove Mahler, who, unbeknownst to zichy, had already, two weeks earlier, secretly signed a contract to become principal conductor at the Stadttheater beginning in March. 18. Budapest.
Year 1890
Gustav Mahler aged 30. 16. 1889-1890. Budapest. Mahler with his sister Justine (Ernestine) Rose-Mahler (1868-1938). In 1889 Mahler lost both his parents and his sister Leopoldine Quittner-Mahler (1863-1889). He assumed custody of Justine (Ernestine) Rose-Mahler (1868-1938) (age 20) and his other brothers and sister: Alois (Louis) Mahler (1867-1931) (age 22), Otto Mahler (1873-1895) (age 16) and Emma Marie Eleanor Rosé-Mahler (1875-1933) (age 14).
Year 1907
Gustav Mahler aged 47. 79. 1907. Vienna. The well-known series of portraits of Mahler taken in the Vienna State Opera during his final year as director. The armchair that appears in many of these pictures is the same one that Mahler used at his desk. In 05-1907, after an unrelenting press campaign against him, Mahler gave up his […]
Year 1906
Gustav Mahler aged 46. 69. 1906. Breslau. Mahler with George Dohrn (1867-1943), conductor of the Breslau Symphony Orchestra, which Mahler conducted on 24-10-1906 in a performance of his Symphony No. 4 and four of his songs. 70. 1906. Vienna. On 27-05-1906 Gustav Mahler (1860-1911) conducted the world premiere of his Symphony No. 6 in Essen. Later, while spending the summer […]
Year 1905
Gustav Mahler aged 45. 54. 1905. Strasbourg. 22-05-1905. Mahler conducting a performance of Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)‘s Symphony No. 9. Concert: 1905 Concert Strasbourg 22-05-1905. On the day before this picture was taken, he conducted his own Symphony No. 5. Concert: 1905 Concert Strasbourg 21-05-1905 – Symphony No. 5. 55. 1905. Vienna. A gathering in the garden at the […]
Year 1904
Gustav Mahler aged 44. 52. Year 1904. Vienna. Gustav Mahler (1860-1911) on his way to and from the Court Opera (Hofoper). According to a good friend, Mahler’s facial expression in the these photographs is typical of moments when “he was preoccupied with unpleasant thoughts.” During this year he finished composing his Symphony No. 6 and began […]
Year 1903
Gustav Mahler aged 43. 37. 1903. Vienna. 38. 1903. Vienna. 39. 1903. Basel. The first known photograph of Mahler and Alma Mahler (1879-1964) together, taken one year after their marriage at a time when Mahler conducted a performance of 1903 Concert Basel 15-06-1903 – Symphony No. 2 in the Munster. 40. 1903. Basel. 42. 1903. Vienna. Inside the Court Opera (Hofoper). 44. […]
Year 1902
Gustav Mahler aged 42.
Year 1901
Gustav Mahler aged 41. 36. 1901 (or 1900). Abbazia. Gustav Mahler spent a few weeks in Villa Jeanette.
Year 1900
Gustav Mahler aged 40. 35. 1900. Vienna. Mahler (center) and members of the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra (VPO). The photograph was taken for the orchestra’s first foreign concert tour, to Paris for the World exhibition Paris (1900). 36. Year 1900.