“What Mahler did in Vienna is beyond human.”

Mr Welser-Möst, do you remember the first time you heard the music of Gustav Mahler?

Welser-Möst: Yes, I do. It was actually the Symphony No. 1 and must have been ten or eleven years old and it was the student orchestra of the Wiener Musikhochschule, at that time with Karl Österreicher. So that was quite some time ago.

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