Festival for Gustav Mahler in His Second Home

Amsterdam was an important place for the great Austrian composer. With the performance of all his symphonies, his songs and the "Lied von der Erde" within ten days, the famous concert hall in the city, the Concertgebouw, was impressively remembered. "Unfortunately, I am a incarnate Viennese," wrote Gustav Mahler from New York in 1910, where he was celebrated as a conductor. In 1907, he resigned as Vienna's court opera director in discontent and …