Natalie Bauer-Lechner
First published in English in 1980, this important early memoir of Gustav Mahler is by Natalie Bauer-Lechner, a viola player and close and devoted friend of Mahler until his marriage to Alma Schindler in 1902.
She visited him in Hamburg and frequented his circle in Vienna, also accompanying him and his family on a number of the summer vacations during which the Second, Third, and Fourth Symphonies came into being, together with many of the Wunderhorn songs.