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Gustav Mahler Magazine, issue 13 (5th year 2026, 1) will be published in April. This issue includes, among other things, Friends of the Gustav Mahler Foundation will receive the magazine free of charge.

Gustav Mahler Magazine, issue 12 (4th year 2025, 3) will be published in early December. This issue includes: Friends of the Gustav Mahler Foundation will receive the magazine free of charge.

The International Gustav Mahler Society has digitised all music sources and programmes from its archive and made them available online on Kulturpool. A very interesting collection! More information via the link below, which also contains a link to the archive. Click here for more information.

The Gustav Mahler Magazine, issue 11 (4th year 2025, 2) has just been published. This includes: Friends of the Gustav Mahler Foundation will receive the magazine free of charge.

‘Amsterdam, which has quickly become a second musical home for me’, wrote Gustav Mahler to Willem Mengelberg in 1904. When Mahler premiered his Third Symphony in 1902 in Krefeld (Germany), Willem Mengelberg, conductor of the Concertgebouw Orchestra, was among the audience. Fascinated by what he heard, he invited Mahler to conduct this symphony in Amsterdam…

In this brand-new podcast, journalist Gijs Groenteman, singer Thomas Oliemans, and musicologist Thomas de Jonker discuss Gustav Mahler's nine completed symphonies in a 20-hour podcast. Following the success of their earlier podcasts on Schubert's Winterreise and Bach's Matthäus-Passion, the gentlemen are now focusing on the symphonic repertoire in the run-up to the Mahler Festival…

Mahler's music is often associated with the Amsterdam Concertgebouw, but his music was first heard in Arnhem. In October 1903, conductor Martin Heuckeroth led Mahler's Third Symphony in Musis Sacrum. The orchestra and choir comprised no fewer than 670 members. In this episode of our Magazine, considerable attention is given to this remarkable performance...

From 1908 to 1910, Gustav Mahler spent his summer holidays in Toblach/Dobbiaco in Italy, where he composed his last three orchestral works. In his honour, the Gustav Mahler Music Weeks have been held annually since 1981, and in the Grand Hotel Cultural Center since 1999. The festival offers orchestral and chamber concerts with renowned artists, exhibitions and lectures on...

On 25 March 2025, the 44th mini-concert Verlorne Müh’!, featuring Miriam Alexandra (soprano), Soenke Tams Freier (baritone), and Henning Lucius (piano), was premiered on YouTube, organised by our Hamburg sister association. Gustav Mahler's song Verlorne Müh’! is one of five songs for voice and piano that he composed in January and February 1892…

There are no moving images of Gustav Mahler, nor recordings of his voice, but there are photographs, texts, and music. These have been brought together into one whole in this brand-new film: The Mahler Monologues. It is not a historical, nor a chronological approach, but a formula through which Mahler himself speaks to us. The Mahler Monologues outline a...

“Dr. Landauer is now releasing my Mahler book. The timing is unfavourable – but when will it ever be more favourable?”, Alma Mahler wrote to Rudolf Mengelberg on 9 February 1940, on the eve of the publication of her book, *Gustav Mahler: Recollections and Letters*. From 1938, after the *Anschluss*, there was no longer a place for a book in Vienna...

On 26 October 2024, the world premiere of this remarkable opera took place at the Volksoper in Vienna. It is an opera in 5 acts about Alma, the busiest widow in the cultural history of Gustav Mahler, among others. The Israeli Ella Milch-Sheriff, aged 70, managed to convincingly portray Alma in her time. Especially her role as...

It had to happen eventually: the ‘authentic’ Mahler. Historical performance practice, which aims to perform music as documented as possible and initially focused on Baroque music, subsequently turned its attention to later music and moved further and further towards the present day, so that sooner or later Mahler would...