Gustav Mahler
Austrian composer and conductor, 1860-1911
Gustav Mahler was an Austrian late-Romantic composer, and one of the leading conductors of his generation. As a composer he acted as a bridge between the 19th century Austro-German tradition and the modernism of the early 20th century. While in his lifetime his status as a conductor was established beyond question, his own music gained wide popularity only after periods of relative neglect which included a ban on its performance in much of Europe during the Nazi era. After 1945 his compositions were rediscovered and championed by a new generation of listeners; Mahler then became one of the most frequently performed and recorded of all composers, a position he has sustained into the 21st century.
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österr. Komponist u. Dirigent (1860-1911). Portrait photography in zinc etching process (Vintage) New York. Photograph: 254:180 mm. Underlay mould-made paperboard: 462:323 mm.
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Unique and rare portrait of Gustav Mahler as a concert conductor in New York. The bust depicts Gustav Mahler in profile, with his head turned to the right. The photograph comes from the studio of A. Dupont, New York, named after the photographer Aimé Dupont (1841-1900), the house photographer of the Metropolitan Opera. When he fell seriously ill in the 1890s, his wife Etta Dupont took over his work, later joined by their son Albert Dupont. The stage generation that grew up after 1900 thought Etta was Aimé Dupont.