Gustav Mahler aged 18.

4. 1878. Jihlava. Gustav Mahler as a graduate of Conservatory of Vienna (Anton-von-Webern-Platz No. 1), where he was awarded first prize at the final exam for the scherzo movement of his piano quintet (lost). By then he had become a vegetarian and had begun to wear eyeglasses.

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