City of Graz
Also: Gratz, Gradec. Year 1905. 27-05-1905 until 02-06-1905. Year 1906. 16-05-1905 meeting Richard Strauss (1864-1949) after Salome performance. Year 1906. 01-12-1906 until 04-12-1906. Graz is the capital of Styria and the second-largest city in Austria after Vienna. For centuries, Graz was more important to Slovenes, both politically and culturally, than the capital of Slovenia, Ljubljana, and it […]
City of Basel
Also: Basle, Bale, Bâle , Basilea. Year 1903. Basel is a city in northwestern Switzerland on the river Rhine. Located where the Swiss, French and German borders meet, Basel also has suburbs in France and Germany. The city of Basel is a traditional Swiss bridgehead on River Rhine. A couple of bridges connects Grossbasel (south) and […]
City of Gothenburg
Scandinavia tour year 1891 (Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Denmark). Year 1891. Gothenburg is the second-largest city in Sweden and the fifth-largest in the Nordic countries. Situated by the Kattegat, on the west coast of Sweden, the city proper has a population of 543,005, with 549,839 in the urban area and 973,261 inhabitants in the metropolitan area. […]
City of Ljubljana
Also: Laibach, Lubjana, Ljublijna, Laybach. In 1880 27,000 inhabitants. Year 1881. Year 1882. From 1809 to 1813, during the Napoleonic interlude, Ljubljana was the capital of the Illyrian Provinces. In 1813, the city became Austrian again and from 1815 to 1849 was the http://mahlerfoundation.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/MF-Projects-2.pngistrative center of the Kingdom of Illyria in the Austrian Empire. In 1821, […]
City of St Petersburg
Also: ?????-??????????, Saint Petersburg. Year 1902. Year 1907. St Petersburg is Russia’s second-largest city after Moscow and an important Russian port on the Baltic Sea. Situated on the Neva River, at the head of the Gulf of Finland on the Baltic Sea, it was founded by Tsar Peter the Great on 27-05-1703. In 1914, the name was […]
City of Moscow
Also: Moskva, Mockba. Fyodor Michailovich Dostoyevsky (1821-1881) was born in Moscow. Year 1897. Moscow ceased to be Russia’s capital (except for a brief period from 1728 to 1732 under the influence of the Supreme Privy Council) when Peter the Great moved his government to the newly built City of St Petersburg on the Baltic coast in 1712. […]
City of Oslo
Scandinavia tour year 1891 (Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Denmark). Year 1891. Oslo (Christiania) is the capital and the most populous city in Norway. Oslo constitutes both a county and a municipality. Founded in the year 1040, and established as a “kaupstad” or trading place in 1048 by King Harald III, the city was elevated to a bishopric […]
Zuiderzee
Year 1906. 10-03-1906. City of Valkeveen. Gustav Mahler himself in the Netherlands (1903, 1904, 1906, 1909 and 1910). “Zuiderzee” was a (open) sea (zee), and is now a (closed) lake (meer). It is now called “Ijsselmeer” or “Ijmeer”. This southside of the Ijsselmeer is called “Gooimeer”. Alphons Diepenbrock (1862-1921) Composer Gustav Mahler (1860-1911) Conductor and Composer Willem […]
City of Naarden
Gooische steamtram Naarden is a city and former municipality in the Gooi region in the province of North Holland in the Netherlands. Naarden is an example of a star fort, complete with fortified walls and a moat. Naarden was granted its city rights in 1300 (the only town in Het Gooi with these rights) and later […]
City of Leiden
Year 1910. 26-08-1910. Meeting with Freud. Sigmund Freud (1856-1939). Location: About 45 km (28 miles) south from Amsterdam and north of The Hague. In 1910 a small city with and old university of high reputation, situated on the Old Rhine. Home to the Netherlands’ oldest university and the birthplace of Rembrandt, Leiden (Leyden) also served […]