First published in English in 1980, this important early memoir of Gustav Mahler is by Natalie Bauer-Lechner (1858-1921), a viola player and close and devoted friend of Mahler until his marriage to Alma Schindler in 1902. She visited him in Hamburg and frequented his circle in Vienna, also accompanying him and his family on a number of the summer vacations during which the Second, Third and Fourth Symphonies came into being, together with many of the Wunderhorn songs. Compiled from Bauer-Lechner's private journal, these Recollections are a vital, invaluable record of Mahler's personal, professional and creative life during the last decade of the nineteenth century. A large part of the book recounts, at first hand, conversations with Mahler concerning his works and his ideas about performance (both in the opera-house and on the concert platform.)

Die osterreichische Bratschistin Natalie Bauer-Lechner, eine enge Vertraute des Komponisten Gustav Mahler, stellt im vorliegenden Band zahlreiche Erinnerungen und Anekdoten aus ihrem Tagebuch zusammen, die einen tiefen Einblick in das private und berufliche Leben Mahlers gewahren. Der Europaische Musikverlag hat es sich zur Aufgabe gemacht, historische Literatur zu Musik, Musikern und Kultur durch qualitativ hochwertige Nachdrucke der Originalausgaben fur jeden Liebhaber und interessierten Leser zu erhalten. Das vorliegende Buch ist ein Nachdruck der Originalausgabe von 1923.