Wiener Werkstatte
Established in 1903, the Wiener Werkstätte (engl.: Vienna’s Workshops) was a production community of visual artists in Vienna, Austria bringing together architects, artists and designers. The enterprise evolved from the Secession (association), founded in 1897 as a progressive alliance of artists and designers. From the start, the Secession had placed special emphasis on the applied […]
House Boissevain Drafna
House Boissevain Drafna Year 1906. Visited by Mahler on 10-03-1906. Estate. Area within Oude Valkeveenscheweg, now Meentweg and Drafnalaantje. House sold in 1940 and demolished 1941. Charles Boissevain (1842-1927) lived here from 1896-1927. Charles Ernest Henri Boissevain (1868-1940) lived also on the Oude Valkeveenscheweg, now Meentweg, in House Bergerac. Large Swiss house with the Norwegian name […]
House Willem Mengelberg
Amsterdam. House Willem Mengelberg. Second house from the right (no. 107). Mengelberg lived here from 1900. At the upper level was a connection with house no. 105 (to the left). Amsterdam. House Willem Mengelberg. Study. The house was increasingly filled with antiques such as clocks, Delft pottery, carpets, paintings, prints, Swiss art, eglomisees, silver, music instruments and […]
1909-1910 Hotel Savoy
Year 1909. Year 1910. Period: 19-10-1909 until 05-04-1910. 5th Avenue and 59th Street. Mahler stayed at the 9th floor. They had a large suite at the corner of 5th Avenue and 59th Street with 3 large windows overlooking 5the Avenue and Central Park (central windows at the corner). Also in the Savoy at the time: Enrico Caruso (1873-1921) and Marcella […]
1910-1911 Hotel Savoy
Year 1910. Year 1911. Period: 25-10-1910 until 08-04-1911. 5th Avenue and 59th Street. 1908-1909 Hotel Savoy Introduction. 1909-1910 Hotel Savoy. 1910-1911 Hotel Savoy.
1908-1909 Hotel Savoy
Year 1908. Year 1909. Period: 21-11-1908 until 10-04-1909. 5th Avenue and 59th Street (767 5th Ave). Demolished. 1908-1909 Hotel Savoy 1909-1910 Hotel Savoy 1910-1911 Hotel Savoy The Savoy was intended to fill the block, spreading south. Instead it eventually went east. Nevertheless, it perched a Hotel Savoy sign on the adjoining building. The Hotel Savoy was […]
1907-1908 Hotel Majestic
21-12-1907 Gustav Mahler and his wife Alma arrive in New York and settle in a suite at the Majestic Hotel. Mahler’s arrival in New York is preceeded by a flurry of publicity that surpasses even the New Yorker’s sensation-seeking best. 600 room building built in 1894 by Albert Zucker, notable for its roof garden and […]
Carnegie Hall
2,800 seats. 57th Street and 7th Avenue. Year 1908. Year 1909. Year 1910. Year 1911. 1908. Carnegie Hall. Carnegie Hall is a concert venue in Midtown Manhattan in New York City, United States, located at 881 Seventh Avenue, occupying the east side of Seventh Avenue between West 56th Street and West 57th Street, two blocks south […]
Amsterdam Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra (RCO)
The Amsterdam Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra (RCO) is one of the very best orchestras in the world. But what makes the orchestra so special? Time and time again, critics have lauded its unique sound, which clearly stands out among thousands of others. Although sound is difficult to describe in words, the RCO’s string section has been called […]
Amsterdam Royal Concertgebouw
The Royal Concertgebouw (in Dutch: Koninklijk Concertgebouw), is a concert hall in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. The Dutch term “concertgebouw” literally translates into English as “concert building”. Address: Concertgebouwplein 10 (formers addresses: van Baerle-straat (street) and Museum-plein (square)). The architect of the building was Adolf Leonard van Gendt, who was inspired by the Gewandhaus in Leipzig, built […]