Sports

Hiking. Swimming. Bicycle. See Wilhelm Zinne (1858-1934). Bicycle owned by the Gustav Mahler Vereinigung Hamburg.

Reading

Gustav Mahler’s reading was wide-ranging, extending, as it did, from the classics of world literature to rather more recondite works. Apart from occasional glances as far back as the ancient Greeks and, in particular, to Euripides, Shakespeare was the earliest playwright to engage his attention, which was focused in the main on German classical and […]