Gustav Mahler in Berlin - 1907
from Letters of composers : an anthology, 1603-1945 / compiled and edited by Gertrude Norman and Miriam Lubell Shrifte., pages 301,302:
There I found two tickets for parquet seats in the first row for Salome and I took Berliner along. The performance was excellent in very respect – orchestrally, vocally, and scenically it was pure Kitsch and Stoll [Mahler’s stage managers at the Vienna Opera], and again it made an extraordinary impression on me. It is an extremely clever, very powerful piece, which certainly belongs among the most significant of our time! Beneath a heap of rubbish an infernal fire lives and burns in it - not just fireworks. / That’s the way it is with Strauss’s whole personality and … more >>
Gertrude Norman and Miriam Lubell Shrifte (ed.), Letters of composers : an anthology, 1603-1945 / compiled and edited by Gertrude Norman and Miriam Lubell Shrifte. (New York, 1979), p. 301,302. https://led.kmi.open.ac.uk/entity/lexp/1424771575655 accessed: 13 December, 2024
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Salome
written by Richard Strauss |
performed by Destinn, Jochanaan (Berger) |
Experience Information
Date/Time | 1907 |
Medium | live |
Listening Environment | in the company of others, indoors, in public |
Notes
Letter from Gustav Mahler to his wife Almschili, Berlin, January 1907.