Jenny Feld (1866-1921)
No photo. Profession: Student, friend Relation to Mahler: Pupil of Gustav Mahler at the Conservatory of Vienna in Year 1878. Blumine. Correspondence with Mahler: Born: 00-00-1866 Marriage: Jenny Feld married a sales representative from Seneca Falls, New York (John Perrin’s father) and the couple settled in Belgium. Jenny kept the score all her life and passed it on to her son. […]
Justus Friedrich Dotzauer (1783-1860)
Justus Friedrich Dotzauer (1783-1860) Profession: Cellist Relation to Mahler: Correspondence with Mahler: Born: 20-01-1783 Haselrieth (near Hildburghausen), Germany Died: 06-03-1860 Buried: 00-00-0000 German cellist in Dresden. Mentioned in diary Natalie Bauer-Lechner (1858-1921). Justus Johann Friedrich Dotzauer was a German cellist and composer. Born to a father who was a church music minister, he learned at a […]
Ernest van Dijck (1861-1923)
Ernest van Dijck (1861-1923). Profession: Tenor, Lawyer, Journalist La Patrie. Professor Conservatories Antwerp and Brussels. Relation to Mahler: Correspondence with Mahler: Born: 02-04-1861 Antwerp, Belgium Died: 31-08-1923 Berlaarhof, Pastorijstraat, Berlaar, Belgium. Aged 62. Buried: 00-00-0000 Also: Dyck. Mentioned in diary Natalie Bauer-Lechner (1858-1921). Ernest Marie Hubert van Dijck was a Belgian dramatic tenor who was closely identified with the Wagnerian repertoire. Success […]
Arabella Cillagi (1861-1918)
Arabella Cillagi (1861-1918). Profession: Soprano Relation to Mahler: Correspondence with Mahler: Born: 17-11-1861 Sárvár, Hungary Address: Neustrasse No. 35 (now Zichy Jeno Street), Budapest Died: 27-04-1918 Budapest, Hungary Buried: 00-00-0000 1889 Opera Budapest 27-01-1889 Also: Arabella Szilagyi, Arabella Spiegel. Hungarian soprano in Budapest. Mentioned in diary Natalie Bauer-Lechner (1858-1921). Born into a Jewish family. Her father was Albert […]
Ignaz Brull (1846-1907)
Ignaz Brull (1846-1907). Profession: Composer, pianist, pedagogue Relation to Mahler: Also pupil of Julius Epstein (1832-1926) Correspondence with Mahler: Born: 07-11-1846 Prostejov (Proßnitz), Moravia. Died: 17-09-1907 Vienna, Austria. Aged 60. Buried: 00-00-0000 ? Mentioned in diary Natalie Bauer-Lechner (1858-1921). Ignaz Brüll was a Moravian-born pianist and composer who lived and worked in Vienna. His operatic compositions included Das goldene Kreuz […]
Ludwig Boer (1862-1942)
No photo. Ludwig Boer (1862-1942). Profession: Dr., Doctor of Medicine Relation to Mahler: Gustav Mahlers personal physician in Vienna. Friend of the Mahler family. He was not an employee of the Vienna State Opera but usually treated the staff. Correspondence with Mahler: Born: 09-11-1862 Austria Residence: Last residence before deportation: Víde? 21, Töllergasse 15, Vienna, Austria. […]
Arnold Bocklin (1827-1901)
Year 1873. Arnold Bocklin (1827-1901). Swiss symbolist romantic painter. Mentioned in diary Natalie Bauer-Lechner (1858-1921). He was born in Basel. His father, Christian Frederick Böcklin (b. 1802), was descended from an old family of Schaffhausen, and engaged in the silk trade. His mother, Ursula Lippe, was a native of the same city. Arnold studied at the Düsseldorf […]
Heinrich von Bocklet (1850-1926)
Heinrich von Bocklet (1850-1926) Profession: Composer, pianist, musician and teacher of music theory. Relation to Mahler: Correspondence with Mahler: Born: 17-11-1850 Vienna, Austria Died: 22-10-1926 Vienna, Austria Buried: 00-00-0000 ? Mentioned in diary Natalie Bauer-Lechner (1858-1921). Arrangement for piano 8 hands of Gustav Mahler’s Symphony No. 2. Heinrich von Bocklet was the son of Karl Maria von Bocklet […]
Wilhelm Berkhan (1857-1913)
Wilhelm Berkhan (1857-1913). Profession: Businessman, optician Relation to Mahler: Correspondence with Mahler: Born: 00-00-1857 Hamburg Died: 00-00-1913 Pinneberg Buried: 00-00-0000 Also: Berkan (officially). German businessman. Mentioned in diary Natalie Bauer-Lechner (1858-1921). Financial supporter 1895 Concert Berlin 13-12-1895 – Symphony No. 2 (Premiere) with Hermann Behn (1857-1927). Neighbor of Hermann Behn (1857-1927).
Alexander from Serbia (1876-1903)
Year 1900. King Alexander from Serbia (1876-1903) and Queen Draga. Profession: King of Serbia. Relation to Mahler: Correspondence with Mahler: Born: 14-08-1876 Belgrade, Serbia Died: 11-06-1903 Belgrade, Serbia. Aged 26. Buried: 00-00-0000 St. Mark’s Church, Belgrade, Serbia Mentioned in diary Natalie Bauer-Lechner (1858-1921). Alexander I or Aleksandar Obrenovi? was king of Serbia from 1889 to 1903 when he and […]