Josephine Poisl (1860- after 1880)
No photo. 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. I, Jihlava. Postoffice (Masarykovo 68-14). Mother: Sister: Anna Poisl. Address: House Josefine Poisl (Hluboka street Nos. 8/101, Nonnengaschen No. 50). Address: Hotel Czap […]
Gabriel Pierne (1863-1937)
Gabriel Pierne (1863-1937). Profession: Conductor, organist, composer. Residences: France. Relation to Mahler: Correspondence with Mahler: Born: 16-08-1863 Metz, France. Died: 17-07-1937 Ploujean, France. Buried: 00-00-0000 Pere Lachaise cemetery, Paris, France. Henri Constant Gabriel Pierné was a French composer, conductor, and organist. Gabriel Pierné was born in Metz in 1863. His family moved to Paris to escape the Franco-Prussian […]
Georges Picquart (1854-1914)
Georges Picquart (1854-1914). Marie-Georges Picquart was a French army officer and Minister of War. He is best known for his role in the Dreyfus Affair. Picquart began his military career in 1872, graduating from the Ecole Spéciale Militaire de Saint-Cyr as fifth in his year. Picquart served as an infantry officer in France before seeing service […]
Hans Pfitzner (1869-1949)
Hans Pfitzner (1869-1949). Hans Erich Pfitzner was a German composer and self-described anti-modernist. His best known work is the post-Romantic opera Palestrina, loosely based on the life of the great sixteenth-century composer Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina. Pfitzner was born in Moscow, where his father played violin in a theater orchestra. The family returned to his father’s […]
Engelbert Pernerstorfer (1850-1918)
Engelbert Pernerstorfer (1850-1918). 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: 00-00-0000 Re-buried: 12-11-1952 Central cemetery, Vienna, Austria. Grave 24-5-1A. With Anna Pernerstorfer. Aged 78. Engelbert Pernerstorfer was one of […]
Jean Paul (1763-1825)
Jean Paul (1763-1825). Jean Paul, born Johann Paul Friedrich Richter, was a German Romantic writer, best known for his humorous novels and stories. Jean Paul was born at Wunsiedel, in the Fichtel Mountains (Franconia). His father was an organist at Wunsiedel. In 1765 his father became a pastor at Joditz near Hof and, in 1767 at Schwarzenbach, […]
Rosa Papier-Paumgartner (1858-1932)
Rosa Papier-Paumgartner (1858-1932). 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 Vienna, Austria. Buried: Central cemetery, Vienna, Austria. Was later moved to Mautern an der Donau, Austria, where she had […]
Maximilian Lenz (1860-1948)
Maximilian Lenz (1860-1948), presumably himself in “A world”. Maximilian Lenz was an Austrian painter, graphic artist and sculptor. Lenz was a founding member of the Vienna Secession; during his career’s most important period, he was a Symbolist, but later his work became increasingly naturalistic. He worked in a variety of media, including oils, watercolours, lithography […]
Otto Nicolai (1810-1849)
Otto Nicolai (1810-1849). Profession: Composer, conductor Residences: Berlin, Vienna. Relation to Mahler: Correspondence with Mahler: Born: 09-06-1810 Koningsbergen, Prussia. Died: 11-05-1849 Berlin, Germany. Buried: Dorotheenstadtischer cemetery II, Berlin, Germany. Carl Otto Ehrenfried Nicolai was a German composer, conductor, and founder of the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra (VPO) in 1842. Nicolai is best known for his operatic version of […]
Emil Orlik (1870-1932)
Emil Orlik (1870-1932). Emil Orlik was a painter, etcher and lithographer. He was born in Prague, which was at that time part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, and lived and worked in Prague, Austria and Germany. Emil Orlik was the son of a tailor. He first studied art at the private art school of Heinrich Knirr, where […]