Category Archives: Contemporaries

Andre Chantemesse (1851-1919). Profession: Doctor of Medicine. Bacteriologist. Residences: Paris. Relation to Mahler: Year 1911, Health. Correspondence with Mahler: Born: 23-10-1851 Puy, France ...

Andre Ernest Modeste Gretry (1741-1813). Profession: Composer. Residences: Belgium. Relation to Mahler:  Correspondence with Mahler:  Born: 08-02-1741 Liege, Belgium. Died: 24-09-1813 Montmorency, ...

Angelo Neumann (1838-1910). Profession: Intendant (in Bremen and 01-08-1885 at the Prague Königlich Deutsches Landestheater in Prague), conductor, baritone. Residences: Vienna, ...

Anna Bahr-von Mildenburg (1872-1947). Profession: Soprano (Hamburg and Vienna State Opera). Relation to Mahler: Love relationship (turbulent, in Hamburg, until ...

No photo. Profession: Singer. Relation to Mahler: Worked with Gustav Mahler. Correspondence with Mahler: Born: 00-00-0000 Died: 00-00-0000 Buried: 00-00-0000 ...

Anna Erler-Schnaudt (1878-1963). Profession: Soprano, Alto. Relation to Mahler: Worked with Gustav Mahler. Correspondence with Mahler: Born: 11-03-1878 Moers, Germany ...

Anna Meitschik (1875-1934). Profession: Alto, mezzo-soprano. Relation to Mahler: Worked with Gustav Mahler. Correspondence with Mahler: Born: 00-00-1875 Minsk, Russia ...

No photo Annie Sommerfeld-Mincieux (1857-1937). Profession: Portret painter, author, journalist and pianist. Residences: Berlin Relation to Mahler: Painted portraits of ...

No photo. Profession: Stagedesigner. Relation to Mahler: Worked with Gustav Mahler. Correspondence with Mahler: Born: 30-11-1855 Vienna, Austria. Died: 31-08-1920 ...

Anton Bruckner (1824-1896). Profession: Composer. Residences: Vienna. Relation to Mahler: Mahler had lessons from him at the Conservatory of Vienna ...

No photo. Anton Krisper (1858-1914). Profession: Composer. Residences: Ljubljana 1881-1882 House Gustav Mahler Ljubljana, Vienna. Relation to Mahler: Friend, classmate ...

Anton Moser (1872-1909). Profession: Baritone. Relation to Mahler: Worked with Gustav Mahler. Correspondence with Mahler: Born: 13-08-1872 Reinsdorf bei Wien, ...

No photo. Anton Nowak (1865-1931), Profession: Painter, graphic. Secession (member). Residences: Vienna. Relation to Mahler: Correspondence with Mahler: Born: 10-05-1865 Marburg an ...

Anton Rubinstein (1829-1894). Photo by J. Ganz, Brussels. Profession: Pianist, conductor, composer. Residences: Russia. Relation to Mahler: Gustav Mahler conducted ...

Anton Ruckauf (1855-1903). Profession: Composer, pianist, conductor, pedagogue. Relation to Mahler: 19-05-1897 Mahler made a short trip to Dresden to attend an opera by Anton ...

Anton Seidl (1850-1898). Profession: Conductor. Residences: Hungary, Bayreuth, Prague, Vienna, Bremen, New York City. Relation to Mahler: Correspondence with Mahler: ...

Anton Sistermans (1867-1926). Profession: Baritone. Relation to Mahler: Worked with Gustav Mahler. Correspondence with Mahler: Born: 05-08-1867 's-Hertogenbosch, the Netherlands ...

Anton van Rooy (1870-1932). Profession: Baritone. Residences: Rotterdam, Frankfurt, Berlin, London. Relation to Mahler: Worked with Gustav Mahler. Correspondence with ...

Anton Webern (1883-1945). Profession: Composer. Residences: Vienna. Relation to Mahler: Correspondence with Mahler: Born: 03-12-1883 Vienna, Austria. Died: 15-09-1945 Mittersill, ...

Photo. Profession: Nanny (Amme) Relation to Mahler: Nanny for the family, lived in the same house. Correspondence with Mahler:  Born: ...

Antonie Roell (1864-1940). Profession: Mayor of Amsterdam (1910-1915), Commissioner of the King for the province of North Holland (1915-1940), Relation to ...

Photo. Profession: Cook (Kochin) Relation to Mahler: Cook for the family. lived in the same house. Correspondence with Mahler:  Born: 00-00-1849 ...

Antonin Dvorak (1841-1904). Profession: Composer. Residences: Prague. Relation to Mahler: Correspondence with Mahler: Yes. 26-10-1898, Year 1898. 04-12-1900, Year 1900, ...

Antonio Scotti (1866-1936). Profession: Baritone. Residences: Italy, London, New York City. Relation to Mahler: Correspondence with Mahler: Born: 25-01-1866 Naples, ...

Arabella Cillagi (1861-1918). Profession: Soprano Relation to Mahler:  Correspondence with Mahler:  Born: 17-11-1861 Sárvár, Hungary Address: Neustrasse No. 35 (now Zichy ...

No photo. Armin Czinner (1853-1918). Profession: Doctor of Medicine. Chief physician at the Low sanatorium. Residences: Vienna. Relation to Mahler: Year 1911, Health ...

Arnold Berliner (1862-1942). In front of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich, Switzerland (date unknown). Profession: Physicist. Residences: Breslau, ...

Year 1873. Arnold Bocklin (1827-1901). Profession: Painter Relation to Mahler: Des Knaben Wunderhorn - Lied 6: Des Antonius von Padua ...

Arnold Schoenberg (1874-1951). Profession: Composer. Residences: Berlin, Vienna. Relation to Mahler: Correspondence with Mahler: Yes 13-12-1904 Year 1904 Vienna: Letter ...

Arnold Zweig (1887-1968). Profession: Writer. Residences: Germany, Palestina, DDR. Relation to Mahler: Correspondence with Mahler: Born: 10-11-1887 Glogau, Prussian, Silesia (now ...

No photo. Profession:  Relation to Mahler: Worked with Gustav Mahler. Correspondence with Mahler: Born: 00-00-0000  Died: 00-00-0000  Buried: 00-00-0000  1882 ...

Arthur Bodanzky (1877-1939). Profession: Conductor, violinist. Residences: Vienna, Berlin, Prague, Mannheim, New York City (after Mahler's death). Relation to Mahler: ...

Arthur Nikisch (1855-1922). Profession: Violinist, pianist, conductor. Residences: Leipzig, Budapest, Boston, London, Berlin. Relation to Mahler: Correspondence with Mahler: Yes ...

Arthur Schnitzler (1862-1931), approx. 1878. Profession: Doctor of Medicine, Writer and Playwright. Residences: Vienna. Relation to Mahler: Correspondence with Mahler: ...

Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860). Profession: Philosopher. Residences: Berlin, Frankfurt. Relation to Mahler: Correspondence with Mahler: Born: 22-02-1788 Danzig, Gdansk, Poland. Died: ...

Arthur Seidl (1863-1928). Profession: Violoncellist, pianist, writer, critic, journalist, teacher dramaturgy at university Leipzig. Residences: Tubingen, Munich, Berlin, Leipzig. Relation ...

Arturo Toscanini (1867-1957). Profession: Cellist, conductor. Residences: Italy, New York City. Relation to Mahler: Correspondence with Mahler: Born: 25-03-1867 Parma, ...

August Plappart von Leenheer (1836-1907). Profession: Court intendant Vienna State Opera Relation to Mahler: Worked with Gustav Mahler. Correspondence with Mahler: ...

August Siebert (1856-1938) in The Prill quartet (Karl Prill (1864-1931), Joseph Sulzer, Anton Ruzitska and August Siebert (1856-1938)) Profession: Violinist. Relation to ...

August Stoll (1853-1918) Profession: Opera director, singer and composer. Teacher at Conservatory of Vienna. Residences:  Relation to Mahler:  Correspondence with Mahler:  ...

Auguste Rodin (1840-1917). Profession: Sculpter. Residences: Paris. Relation to Mahler: Correspondence with Mahler: Born: 12-11-1840 Paris, France. Died: 17-11-1917 Meudon, ...

Augustus Henry Glossop Harris (1852-1896). Profession: Impresario, director Royal Opera House Covent Garden and Theatre Royal Drury Lane. Residences: London. Relation to ...

Photo. Profession: Private entrepeneur Relation to Mahler: Lived in the same house Correspondence with Mahler:  Born: 00-00-1827 Uhlirske Janovice (Kohjanowitz) ...

Balthazar Huibrecht Verhagen (1881-1950). Profession: Poet, playwright. Residences: Relation to Mahler: Attended funeral Mahler. Correspondence with Mahler: Born: 00-00-1881 Amsterdam, the ...

Baptist Hoffmann (1863-1937). Profession: Baritone. Relation to Mahler: Worked with Gustav Mahler. Correspondence with Mahler: Born: 09-07-1863 Garitz, Germany. Died: ...

Bedrich Smetana (1824-1884). Profession: Pianist, composer, conductor Residences: Prague, Gothenburg. Relation to Mahler: Correspondence with Mahler: Born: 02-03-1824 Litomyšl/Litomysl, Czech ...

Béla Bartók (1881-1945). Profession: Pianist, composer. Residences: Budapest, New York. Relation to Mahler: Correspondence with Mahler: Born: 25-03-1881 Nagyszentmiklós, Hungary ...

No photo. Bela Diossy (0000-0000). Profession: Journalist. Residences: Budapest. Relation to Mahler: Correspondence with Mahler: Yes. 26-06-1896, Year 1896. Born: 00-00-0000 ...

Bella Alten (1877-1962). Photo by Aime and Etta Dupont (1842-1900). Profession: Soprano. Relation to Mahler: Worked with Gustav Mahler. Correspondence with ...

Bella Paalen (1881-1964). Profession: Alto. Relation to Mahler: Worked with Gustav Mahler. Correspondence with Mahler: Born: 09-07-1881 Pasztho, Hungary. Died: ...