- Chronology: Year 1895
- Location: Philharmonie
- Nature: First orchestral concert by Gustav Mahler
- Program: Mahler
- Composition Mahler:
- Symphony No. 2 (Premiere)
- Soloist: Josephine von Artner (1869-1932) and Hedy Feldenova (1866-1922) in Movement 4: “Urlicht”. Sehr feierlich, aber schlicht, who replaced the originally scheduled Marie Ritter-Gotze.
- Conductor: Gustav Mahler (1860-1911)
- Orchestra: Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra (BPO)
- Chorus: The Stern’scher Gesangverein conducted by Julius Friedrich Gernsheim (1839-1916) and the Sangerbund des Lehrervereins
- Concert number: c083
- In the Leipziger ‘Neue Zeitung fur Musik’: A row of big bells were hanging on a wooden frame. See Bell foundry Collier.
- Notes: Worldpremiere. Urlicht poem from Des Knaben Wunderhorn (Lied 11: Urlicht) ; re-orchestrated July 1893 for use as movement IV in Symphony No. 2. Mahler arranged this and the following concerts privately, with financial support from his Hamburg friends, the businessman Wilhelm Berkhan (1857-1913) and the composer and lawyer Hermann Behn (1857-1927). The latter had also made a reduction for two piano’s, four hands, and paid for its publication which appeared in commission in 12-1895, by music publisher Hofmeister music publishers in Leipzig.
- Also present: Justine (Ernestine) Rose-Mahler (1868-1938), Behn family, Adele Marcus (1854-1917) (with her daughter Toni).
