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BIOGRAFÍA | BIOGRAPHICAL CHRONOLOGY
1860-1880 | 1881-1890 | 1891-1900 | 1901-1910 | 1911
© HENRY-LOUIS DE LA GRANGE
| 1860 |
- 7 july: GM born at Kalischt (Kaliste) on the border between Bohemia and Moravia, the second of fourteen children. Parents: Bernhard Mahler, a Jewish café owner and distiller, born at Lipnitz, and Maria Hermann, daughter of Abraham Hermann, a soap boiler from Ledetsch (Ledec). Their first child, Isidor, dies in March 1858, at only a few months old.
- 23 october: the Mahler family moves to Iglau (Jihlava).
| 1861 |
- 13 april: birth of GM's brother, Ernst.
| 1865 |
- 18 may: birth of GM's sister, Leopoldine.
- piano and music lessons with Franz Sturm; the violinist Johannes Brosch; the conductor of the Iglau Theatre, Franz Viktorin; Wenzel Pressburg; the double-bass player Jakob Sladky; and finally, with Heinrich Fischer, music director and conductor of the local Männergesangverein, of which GM was a member.
| 1868 |
- birth of GM's sister, Justine.
| 1869 |
- october: enters Iglau Grammar School.
| 1870 |
- 13 october: makes public début playing piano at a concert at the Iglau Theatre.
| 1871-72 |
- september - march: GM with the Grünfeld family in Prague.
| 1872 |
- 11 november: plays Liszt's paraphrase of Wedding March and Dance of the Elves from Mendelssohn's A Midsummer Night's Dream at a concert in the assembly hall of Iglau Grammar School.
| 1873 |
- 20 april: plays Thalberg's Fantasia on Themes from Norma at concert celebrating wedding of Archduchess Gisela and Prince Leopold of Bavaria.
- 17 may: plays same piece at the Czap Hotel in Iglau.
- 18 june: birth of GM's brother, Otto.
| 1875 |
- 13 april: death of GM's brother, Ernst.
- summer: together with his friend Josef Steiner, GM spends summer holidays at the home of Gustav Schwarz on the Morawan estates near Caslau (Caslav); works on an opera, Ernst von Schwaben.
- 10 september: enrolls at Vienna Conservatory, piano with Julius Epstein, harmony with Robert Fuchs, counterpoint and composition with Franz Krenn; later studies history of music with Adolf Prosnitz; fellow students include Hugo Wolf, Anton Krisper, Hans Rott, Rudolf Krzyzanowski and Arnold Rosé; writes numerous chamber and orchestral works that he later destroys.
| 1876 |
- writes first movement of a Piano Quartet in A minor (extant).
- 2 march: Wagner conducts Lohengrin at the Court Opera (his final conducting engagement in the city).
- 23 june: wins first prize for piano at Vienna Conservatory for performance of a Schubert sonata in A minor.
- 1 july: wins first prize for composition for first movement of Piano Quartet.
- 12 september: benefit concert at Czap Hotel in Iglau, at which GM plays a Chopin ballade and Schubert's Wandererfantasie; programme also includes a (lost) violin sonata by GM.
| 1877 |
- becomes friendly with Hugo Wolf; both are members of the Vienna Wagner Society and share the same room.
- march: Wolf expelled from Conservatory.
- 16 march: GM attends Liszt's public concert in Vienna.
- 20 june: another first prize for piano for Schumann's Humoreske; GM declines to compete for composition prize.
- summer: works on opera Die Argonauten (score lost).
- 12 september: enrolls in Franz Krenn's class in counterpoint but does not complete the course. Abitur in Iglau, then enrolls at Vienna University: attends Bruckner's Harmony lectures and courses in early Germanic literature, the history of Greek art and the history of art.
- 20 october: plays first movement of Xaver Scharwenka's First Piano Concerto at Conservatory.
- 16 december: attends first performance of Bruckner's Third Symphony. His transcription of this work for piano, four hands, published by Bussjäger & Rättig.
| 1878 |
- 18 march: completes text of Das klagende Lied.
- 25 april: second semester at University, where GM studies classical sculpture, history of Dutch painting and philosophy of the history of philosophy.
- 2 july: wins first prize for Scherzo from Piano Quintet and receives diploma from Conservatory.
- 11 july: prizewinners' concert at Conservatory, at which GM performs his Quintet.
- summer: spends vacation with Emil Freund at Seelau (Zeliv). Submits Overture of Die Argonauten to jury of Beethoven Prize but does not win.
| 1879 |
- 24 april: concert at Iglau Theatre, at which GM plays one of Liszt's Hungarian Rhapsodies, Schumann's Humoreske and a Schubert sonata in A minor.
- june - july: at Puszta Batta, Teteny, near Budapest, as music teacher to the children of Moritz Baumgarten.
- 12 august: visits Emil Freund at Seelau.
- 31 august: birth of Alma Schindler in Vienna.
- christmas at Iglau.
| 1879-80 |
- autumn - winter: becomes friendly with pioneers of Socialism, Victor Adler and Engelbert Pernerstorfer, with the writers Siegfried Lipiner and Richard von Kralik, and with the physician Albert Spiegler; adopts vegetarian diet; falls in love with Josephine Poisl, the daughter of the Iglau postmaster; dedicates three songs to her.
- winter: third term at University, where he attends courses in archaeology, history of ancient philosophy, history of Europe at the time of Napoleon and Hanslick's course on the ‘history of music since the death of Beethoven’.
| 1880 |
- 21 march: completes sketches of first part of Das klagende Lied.
- april: GM re-registers at University (art and history).
- may - july: in Bad Hall to conduct operettas; works on the opera Rübezahl and at Das klagende Lied, the orchestration of which he completes in November.
- october - november: Hans Rott declared insane; GM completes Das klagende Lied and ekes out a precarious living by teaching.
- christmas spent at Iglau.
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