Igor Stravinksy in Saint Petersburg - in the beginning of the 1900's
from Memories and Commentaries, pages 57-58:
I remember seeing Mahler in St Petersburg, too. His concert there was a triumph. Rimsky was still alive, I believe, but he wouldn’t have attended because a work by Tchaikovsky was on the programme, Manfred, I think, the dullest piece possible. Mahler also played some Wagner fragments and, if I remember correctly, a symphony of his own. Mahler impressed me greatly, himself and his conducting. I attribute the latter to his training as a composer. The most interesting (though, of course, … more >>
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Igor Stravinksy and Robert Craft, Memories and Commentaries (Queen Square, London, 2002), p. 57-58. https://led.kmi.open.ac.uk/entity/lexp/1450284217933 accessed: 13 October, 2024
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Fragments by Wagner
written by Richard Wagner |
performed by Gustav Mahler |
Symphony by Mahler
written by Gustav Mahler |
performed by Gustav Mahler |
Manfred Symphony, Op.58
written by Peter Ilich Tchaikovsky |
performed by Gustav Mahler |
Experience Information
Date/Time | in the beginning of the 1900's |
Medium | live |
Listening Environment | in the company of others, indoors, in public |
Originally submitted by verafonte on Wed, 16 Dec 2015 16:43:38 +0000
Approved on Sat, 23 Apr 2016 21:12:55 +0100