Category Archives: Contemporaries

No photo. Paul Bulss (1847-1902). Profession: Baritone. Relation to Mahler: Worked with Gustav Mahler. Correspondence with Mahler: Born: 19-12-1847 Rittergut Birkholz, ...

Paul Clemenceau (1857-1946). Profession: Ingenieur, direktor of Dynamit Nobel AG in Paris. Relation to Mahler: Correspondence with Mahler: Born: 02-08-1857 ...

Paul Dufault (1872-1930). Profession: Tenor. Relation to Mahler: Worked with Gustav Mahler. Correspondence with Mahler: Born: 10-12-1872 America Died: 20-06-1930 ...

No photo. Paul Greeff (1854-1923). Profession: Bass. Relation to Mahler: Worked with Gustav Mahler. Correspondence with Mahler: Born: Unknown. Died: ...

No photo. Paul Hammerschlag (1860-1933) Profession: Mahlers Banker. Residences: Vienna. Relation to Mahler: Friend. Correspondence with Mahler: Yes. 00-00-0000, Year ...

Paul Hindemith (1895-1963). Profession: Viola player, composer. Residences: Hanau, Frankfurt, Berlin. Relation to Mahler: Correspondence with Mahler: Born: 16-11-1895 Hanau, ...

Paul Kammerer (1880-1926). Profession: Biologist, bacteriologist, society figure. Residences: Vienna. Relation to Mahler: Love affair with Alma Schindler. Correspondence with ...

Paul Painleve (1863-1933). Profession: Ingenieur, French Defence minister. Residences: Lille, Paris. Relation to Mahler: Correspondence with Mahler: Born: 05-12-1863 Paris, ...

Photo. Profession: Bank clerk, part time music critic of the Illustrirtes Wiener Extrablatt and the Vienna Montagspresse. Relation to Mahler: ...

Paul Stefan (1879-1943). Profession: Biographer Gustav Mahler. Residences: Vienna. Relation to Mahler: Correspondence with Mahler: Born: 25-11-1879 Brno, Czech Republic ...

Paul Wittgenstein (1887-1961). Profession: Pianist. Residences: Vienna Relation to Mahler: Correspondence with Mahler: Born: 05-11-1887 Vienna, Austria. Died: 03-03-1961 New ...

Paula Doenges (1874-1931). Profession: Soprano Relation to Mahler: Worked with Gustav Mahler (1860-1911) in the Vienna State Opera Correspondence with Mahler: Yes. Born: ...

No photo. Paula Ralph. Profession: Soprano. Relation to Mahler: Worked with Gustav Mahler. Correspondence with Mahler: Born: Unknown. Died: Unknown ...

No photo. Profession: Mezzo-soprano. Relation to Mahler: Worked with Gustav Mahler. Correspondence with Mahler: Born: Unknown. Died: Unknown.  Buried: Unknown.  ...

Pelagie Andriessen-Greeff (1860-1937). Profession: Soprano. Relation to Mahler: Worked with Gustav Mahler. Correspondence with Mahler: Born: 20-06-1860 Mainz, Germany. Died: ...

Peter Cornelius (1824-1874). Profession: Composer. Residences: Berlin, Weimar, Vienna. Relation to Mahler: Correspondence with Mahler: Born: 24-12-1824, Mainz, Germany. Died: ...

Petronella Johanna Boissevain (1881-1956) Profession: Residences: Amsterdam, Surabaya, Leeuwarden. Relation to Mahler: Correspondence with Mahler: No Born: 24-12-1881, Amsterdam, The ...

No photo. Philipp Freund (1817-1885). Profession: Owned a distillery and ran the post office in Zeliv (Seelau). Relation to Mahler: ...

Pieter Anton Lodewijk van Ogtrop (1835-1903). Profession: Stock broker. Relation to Mahler: Chairman of the board of the Amsterdam Royal Concertgebouw 1888-1903 ...

Pietro Mascagni (1863-1945). Profession: Opera composer. Residences: Rome, Italy. Relation to Mahler: Correspondence with Mahler: Yes. 31-12-1890, Year 1900. 11-05-1901, Year 1901 ...

No photo. Poldi. Profession: Maid Residences: Relation to Mahler: Correspondence with Mahler: Born: 00-00-0000 Died: 00-00-0000 Buried: 00-00-0000 Period Year ...

Povla Frisch (1881-1960). Profession: Soprano. Relation to Mahler: Worked with Gustav Mahler. Correspondence with Mahler: Born: 03-08-1881 Arhus, Danmark. Died: ...

Prince Henry of the Netherlands (1876-1934) of the Netherlands. In the Netherlands called "Prins Hendrik". Profession: Prince of The Netherlands. Relation ...

1895. Prince Rudolf of Liechtenstein (1838-1908). Profession: Monarch, Court official (Obersthofmeister) in Vienna. Relation to Mahler: Employer of August Plappart von Leenheer ...

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840-1893). Profession: Conductor, composer. Residences: St Petersburg. Relation to Mahler: Tchaikovsky and Mahler both in Hamburg (1892 ...

No photo. Raffaele Barocchi (1873). Profession: Bass. Relation to Mahler: Worked with Gustav Mahler. Correspondence with Mahler: Born: 1873 Florence, ...

Raimund von Zur Muhlen (1854-1931). Profession: Tenor. Relation to Mahler: Worked with Gustav Mahler. Correspondence with Mahler: Born: 10-11-1854 Uusna ...

Rainer Maria Rilke (1875-1926). Profession: Poet, writer. Residences: Prague, Munich. Relation to Mahler: Correspondence with Mahler: Born: 04-12-1875 Prague, Czech ...

Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872-1958). Profession: Historian, composer. Residences: London. Relation to Mahler: Correspondence with Mahler: Born: 12-10-1872 Down Ampney, England ...

Riccardo Chailly (1953). Profession: Conductor Relation to Mahler: Amsterdam Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra (RCO), Gustav Mahler Festival Amsterdam 1995 Correspondence with ...

Riccardo Martin (1874-1952). Profession: Tenor. Relation to Mahler: Worked with Gustav Mahler. Correspondence with Mahler: Born: 18-11-1874 Hopkinsville, Kentucky, America. Died: ...

Richard Aldrich (1863-1937). Profession: Critic, journalist. Residences: Providence, Rome. Relation to Mahler: Correspondence with Mahler: No. Born: 31-07-1863 Providence, Rhode ...

Richard Arnold (1845-1918). Profession: Concertmaster New York Philharmonic Orchestra (NYPO/NPO), violinist. Residences: Prussia, Leipzig, New York. Relation to Mahler: Concertmaster in ...

No photo. Richard Batka (1868-1922). Profession: Critic, musicologist, librettist, critic. Residences: Vienna, Prague. Relation to Mahler: Correspondence with Mahler: Yes ...

Richard Beer-Hofmann (1866-1945). Profession: Poet, writer. Residences: Brno, Vienna, New York. Relation to Mahler: Correspondence with Mahler: No. Address 1902: ...

Richard Dehmel (1863-1920) (1910). Profession: Poet, writer Relation to Mahler: Telegram from Gustav Mahler. Correspondence with Mahler: Yes. 5 letters ...

No photo. Richard Epstein (1869-1919). Profession: Pianist, composer. Residences: Vienna, Berlin, Dresden, London. Relation to Mahler: Correspondence with Mahler: Born: 1869 ...

Richard Heuberger (1850-1914). Profession: Conductor, Critic Neue Freie Presse. Residences: Graz, Vienna. Relation to Mahler: Correspondence with Mahler: Born: 18-06-1850 ...

No photo. Richard Horn (0000-0000). Profession: Lawyer. Residences: Germany. Relation to Mahler: Correspondence with Mahler: Yes. 00-00-1903, Year 1903. Born: Bohemia ...

Richard Mayr (1877-1935). Profession: Bass. Residences: Vienna, London, New York. Relation to Mahler: Discovered by Mahler. Correspondence with Mahler: Born: ...

Richard Ritter von Meyrswalden Kralik (1852-1934). Profession: Historian, poet, dramatist. Residences: Vienna, I, Elisabethstrasse No. 1. Mahler played the piano here ...

Richard Schraml. No photo. Profession: Violinist. Relation to Mahler: Worked with Gustav Mahler. Correspondence with Mahler: Born: Unknown. Died: Unknown. Buried: ...

Richard Specht (1870-1932). Profession: Writer, musicologist, first biographer Gustav Mahler (1905). Published the first large biography 1913 in Berlin.. Residences: ...

Richard Strauss (1864-1949). Profession: Conductor, composer. Residences: Munich, Berlin Relation to Mahler: As director of the Vienna State Opera, Mahler ...

Richard van Rees (1853-1939). Profession: Bankier at Boissevain (later Pierson & Co). See Charles Ernest Henri Boissevain (1868-1940). Relation to Mahler: Chairman of ...

Richard Volkmann (1830-1889) (Richard Leander). Profession: Poet, doctor of Medicine Residences: Halle, Berlin Relation to Mahler: Lieder fur Singstimme (piano), 5 ...

Richard Wagner (1813-1883). Profession: Poet, writer, conductor, composer. Residences: Leipzig, Dresden, Venice, Vienna, Paris, Bayreuth Relation to Mahler: Inspiration. Gustav ...

Rita Fornia (1878-1922). Profession: Mezzo-soprano. Relation to Mahler: Worked with Gustav Mahler. Correspondence with Mahler: Born: 17-07-1878 San Francisco, America ...

Robert Blass (1867-1930) as Gurnemanz in Parsifal. Profession: Bass. Relation to Mahler: Worked with Gustav Mahler. Correspondence with Mahler: Born: 27-10-1867 ...

Robert Franz (1815-1892). Profession: Pianist, conductor, composer. Residences: Relation to Mahler: Correspondence with Mahler: Born: 28-06-1815 Halle (Saale), Germany. Died: ...