Gustav Mahler aged 37.
24. 1897. Hamburg. On 23-02-1897 he secretly converted to Catholicism, a requirement for the Vienna Court Opera (Hofoper) to which he was appointed on 08-04-1897. By 08-10-1897 he was elevated to director, where he remained for 10 glorious years.
- 01-01-1897 Hamburg:
- 02-01-1897 Hamburg:
- 03-01-1897 Hamburg:
- 04-01-1897 Hamburg:
- 05-01-1897 Hamburg: New production of Cherubini’s Les deux journées.
- 06-01-1897 Hamburg:
- 07-01-1897 Hamburg:
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- 11-01-1897 Hamburg:
- 12-01-1897 Hamburg:
- 13-01-1897 Hamburg:
- 14-01-1897 Hamburg:
- 15-01-1897 Hamburg: Schuch Conducts second, third and Movement 4s of Symphony No. 2 in Dresden in the composer’s presence; meeting with Wilhelm Jahn, director of the Vienna Court Opera.
- 16-01-1897 Hamburg:
- 17-01-1897 Hamburg:
- 18-01-1897 Hamburg:
- 19-01-1897 Hamburg:
- 20-01-1897 Hamburg:
- 21-01-1897 Hamburg: Nikisch Conducts Blumenstück at Leipzig Gewandhaus.
- 22-01-1897 Hamburg:
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- 24-01-1897 Hamburg:
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- 26-01-1897 Hamburg:
- 27-01-1897 Hamburg:
- 28-01-1897 Hamburg:
- 29-01-1897 Hamburg:
- 30-01-1897 Hamburg: 1897 Concert Hamburg 30-01-1897 (piano)
- 31-01-1897 Hamburg:
- 01-02-1897 Hamburg: 1897 Concert Hamburg 01-02-1897 (piano). Symphony No. 2 (two piano and orchestral scores) published by Hofmeister.
- 02-02-1897 Hamburg:
- 03-02-1897 Hamburg: Hamburg premiere of Andrea Chenier.
- 04-02-1897 Hamburg:
- 05-02-1897 Hamburg:
- 06-02-1897 Hamburg:
- 07-02-1897 Hamburg:
- 08-02-1897 Hamburg:
- 09-02-1897 Hamburg:
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- 11-02-1897 Hamburg:
- 12-02-1897 Hamburg: 1897 Concert Hamburg 12-02-1897
- 13-02-1897 Hamburg:
- 14-02-1897 Hamburg:
- 15-02-1897 Hamburg:
- 16-02-1897 Hamburg:
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- 18-02-1897 Hamburg:
- 19-02-1897 Hamburg:
- 20-02-1897 Hamburg:
- 21-02-1897 Hamburg:
- 22-02-1897 Hamburg:
- 23-02-1897 Hamburg: Gustav Mahler conversion to Roman Catholicism. Baptised in the St. Michael's Church (Hamburg). Together with Emma Marie Eleanor Rose-Mahler (1875-1933). Cosima Wagner (1837-1930) preferred Felix Mottl (1856-1911) as conductor of the Vienna State Opera.
- 24-02-1897 Hamburg:
- 25-02-1897 Hamburg:
- 26-02-1897 Hamburg:
- 27-02-1897 Hamburg:
- 28-02-1897 Hamburg:
- 01-03-1897 Hamburg:
- 02-03-1897 Hamburg:
- 03-03-1897 Hamburg:
- 04-03-1897 Hamburg:
- 05-03-1897 Hamburg:
- 06-03-1897 Hamburg:
- 07-03-1897 Hamburg:
- 08-03-1897 Hamburg:
- 09-03-1897 Berlin: Movement 3: Comodo. Scherzando. Ohne Hast and Movement 6: Langsam. Ruhevoll. Empfunden of Symfonie No. 3 by Gustav Mahler are performed for the first time in Berlin. Response to Movement 2 is mixed. Movement 6 causes an uproar. Conductor Felix von Weingartner (1863-1942). Conducts second, third and sixth movements of Symphony No. 3 at one of Weingartner’s Königliche Kappelle concerts in Berlin.
- 10-03-1897 Berlin: Gustav Mahler departs Berlin for Moscow.
- 11-03-1897 Train: Gustav Mahler to Moscow for Russian Musical Society concert.
- 12-03-1897 Moscow: Arrival. Hotel Continental. Migraine. Cold weather. Letter to Justine (Ernestine) Rose-Mahler (1868-1938).
- 13-03-1897 Moscow: Rehearsal. Letter to Justine (Ernestine) Rose-Mahler (1868-1938).
- 14-03-1897 Moscow: Letter to Justine (Ernestine) Rose-Mahler (1868-1938).
- 15-03-1897 Moscow: Letters to Justine (Ernestine) Rose-Mahler (1868-1938). 1897 Concert Moscow 15-03-1897.
- 16-03-1897 Moscow:
- 17-03-1897 Train:
- 18-03-1897 Berlin:
- 19-03-1897 Munich: Gustav Mahler in Munich for Kaim concert.
- 20-03-1897 Munich:
- 21-03-1897 Munich:
- 22-03-1897 Munich:
- 23-03-1897 Munich:
- 24-03-1897 Munich: 1897 Concert Munich 24-03-1897
- 25-03-1897 Munich:
- 26-03-1897 Vienna
- 27-03-1897 Vienna:
- 28-03-1897 Budapest: In Budapest for performance of Blumenstuck.
- 29-03-1897 Budapest:
- 30-03-1897 Budapest:
- 31-03-1897 Budapest: 1897 Concert Budapest 31-03-1897 - Symphony No. 3 - movement 2. Blumenstuck.
- 01-04-1897 Vienna: Restaurant Kuhrer (Hartmann). Brief visit to Vienna.
- 02-04-1897 Hamburg:
- 03-04-1897 Hamburg: Vienna: Death Johannes Brahms (1833-1897) in Vienna. Vienna Secession (association) founded.
- 04-04-1897 Hamburg: Gustav Mahler agrees in principle to a one-year contract with the Vienna State Opera (Hofoper, Wiener Staatsoper). As he waited for the Emperor's confirmation of his directorship, Mahler shared duties as a resident conductor with Joseph Hellmesberger Jr. (1855-1907) (son of the former conservatory director Joseph Hellmesberger Sr. (1828-1893)) and Hans Richter (1843-1916), an internationally renowned interpreter of Wagner and the conductor of the original Ring cycle at Bayreuth in 1876. Director Wilhelm Jahn (1835-1900) had not consulted Hans Richter (1843-1916) about Mahler's appointment; Mahler, sensitive to the situation, wrote Hans Richter (1843-1916) a complimentary letter expressing unswerving admiration for the older conductor. Subsequently the two were rarely in agreement, but kept their divisions private.
- 05-04-1897 Hamburg:
- 06-04-1897 Hamburg: Vienna: Brahms buried. Central cemetery.
- 07-04-1897 Hamburg: Bids farewell to Hamburg (until 25-04-1897).
- 08-04-1897 Hamburg: The Wiener Abendpost (Vienna) announces that Gustav Mahler has been engaged as a conductor at the Vienna State Opera (Hofoper, Wiener Staatsoper).
- 09-04-1897 Hamburg:
- 10-04-1897 Hamburg:
- 11-04-1897 Hamburg:
- 12-04-1897 Hamburg: Letter to Hans Richter (1843-1916): Copy in unknown hand. Mahler pays his respects to Richter before assuming his position in Vienna.
- 13-04-1897 Hamburg:
- 14-04-1897 Hamburg:
- 15-04-1897 Hamburg: Signing of the contract as conductor of the Vienna State Opera (Hofoper, Wiener Staatsoper).
- 16-04-1897 Hamburg: 1897 Concert Hamburg 16-04-1897
- 17-04-1897 Hamburg:
- 18-04-1897 Hamburg:
- 19-04-1897 Hamburg:
- 20-04-1897 Hamburg: Letter to Friedrich Fritz Lohr (1859-1924).
- 21-04-1897 Hamburg:
- 22-04-1897 Hamburg:
- 23-04-1897 Hamburg:
- 24-04-1897 Hamburg: 1897 Concert Hamburg 24-04-1897. Gustav Mahler’s own benefit and farewell performance at the Stadttheater ('Eroica’ and Fidelio).
- 25-04-1897 Hamburg: Letter to Camilla von Stefanovic-Vilovska (0000-0000). Leaving for Vienna. Justine (Ernestine) Rose-Mahler (1868-1938) stayed in Hamburg to take care of the removal.
- 26-04-1897 Vienna: Arrives in Vienna. Stayed in Hotel Bristol. Interviews. From 26-04-1897 until 09-12-1907 Vienna State Opera.
- 27-04-1897 Vienna: Mahler arrived at the Vienna State Opera (Hofoper, Wiener Staatsoper).
- 28-04-1897 Vienna: Letter to Justine (Ernestine) Rose-Mahler (1868-1938) saying he travelled with a childhood friend from Jihlava (Grunfeld?).
- 29-04-1897 Vienna:
- 30-04-1897 Vienna:
- 01-05-1897 Vienna:
- 02-05-1897 Vienna: First meeting with Wilhelm Jahn (1835-1900). Meeting with Bernhard Pollini (1838-1897) and Hermann Bahr (1863-1934) in the reception hall of Hotel Bristol.
- 03-05-1897 Vienna: Wilhelm Jahn (1835-1900) asked Mahler to leave for Venice to attend the world premiere of Ruggero Leoncavallo (1857-1919)s La Boheme which was programmed at the Vienna State Opera (Hofoper, Wiener Staatsoper) for the following season. First meeting with prince Liechtenstein.
- 04-05-1897 Vienna: Leaving for Venice. Meeting with Bernhard Pollini (1838-1897). Letter to Justine (Ernestine) Rose-Mahler (1868-1938) giving his Venice address as Hotel Britannia. He also confirms that he will make his debut with Don Giovanni, followed by Tannhauser. In Venice the hear two Boheme's: by Ruggero Leoncavallo (1857-1919) and Giacomo Puccini (1858-1924).
- 05-05-1897 Venice: Gustav Mahler in Venice to see the two different versions of La Boheme by Leoncavallo and Puccini.
- 06-05-1897 Venice: With Bernhard Pollini (1838-1897) to the La Fenice Theater. Postcard to Justine (Ernestine) Rose-Mahler (1868-1938). Mahler liked La Boheme by Puccini better.
- 07-05-1897 Venice: With Bernhard Pollini (1838-1897) to the San Bernadetto Theater. Leaving for Vienna.
- 08-05-1897 Vienna: Attended Die Meistersinger conducted by Hans Richter (1843-1916).
- 09-05-1897 Vienna: Mahler rehearsed the singers with piano.
- 10-05-1897 Vienna: Wilhelm Jahn (1835-1900) (almost blind) officially presented Mahler to the orchestra as the new conductor. He starts with the rehearsels with Lohengrin.
- 11-05-1897 Vienna: 1897 Opera Vienna 11-05-1897. Triumphant debut at the Vienna State Opera with Lohengrin. Present were Eduard Wlassack (1841-1904), Ludwig Karpath (1866-1936), Rosa Papier (1858-1932), Natalie Bauer-Lechner (1858-1921) and Albert Spiegler (1856-1940) and Nina Spiegler (Lipiner-Hoffmann) (1855-1937). Supper at the Grand Hotel with friends.
- 12-05-1897 Vienna: Unanimous approval of the critics. Mahler send his review to Justine (Ernestine) Rose-Mahler (1868-1938) in Hamburg. The imperial Habsburg capital, had recently elected an anti-Semitic conservative mayor, Karl Lueger (1844-1910), who had once proclaimed: "I myself decide who is a Jew and who isn't." In such a volatile political atmosphere Mahler needed an early demonstration of his German cultural credentials. He made his initial mark with a much-praised performances of Wagner's Lohengrin and Mozart's Die Zauberflote.
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- 18-05-1897 Vienna:
- 19-05-1897 Dresden: Short trip to Dresden to attend an opera by Anton Ruckauf, Die Rosenthalerin. It never staged in Vienna. Mahler caught a cold.
- 20-05-1897 Vienna:
- 21-05-1897 Vienna: The infection gradually settled in his throat, forcing him to take to his bed for several days. Health.
- 22-05-1897 Vienna: Health
- 23-05-1897 Vienna: Health
- 24-05-1897 Vienna: Health
- 25-05-1897 Vienna: Health
- 26-05-1897 Vienna: 1897 Opera Vienna 26-05-1897. Success.
- 27-05-1897 Vienna: Health
- 28-05-1897 Vienna: Health
- 29-05-1897 Vienna: 1897 Opera Vienna 29-05-1897. Die Zauberflöte.
- 30-05-1897 Vienna: Health. Mahler felt worse and the doctor found a second abscess in his throat, a specialist was summoned, and decided to lance it immediately. The pain was so great after the operation that Maher could not eat or even swallow. That evening he received an injection of morphine to relieve the pain. Three days in bed. Health.
- 31-05-1897 Vienna: Health
- 01-06-1897 Vienna: Health
- 02-06-1897 Vienna: Health
- 03-06-1897 Vienna:
- 04-06-1897 Vienna: Hugo Wolf (1860-1903) (37) writes his mother that Gustav Mahler told him his opera Der Corregidor would be performed next season.
- 05-06-1897 Vienna: 1897 Opera Vienna 05-06-1897. Der fliegende Holländer. Success.
- 06-06-1897 Vienna: 1897 Opera Vienna 06-06-1897. Justine (Ernestine) Rose-Mahler (1868-1938) at the performance. Almost a week in bed with high fever.
- 07-06-1897 Vienna: Health.
- 08-06-1897 Vienna: Health.
- 09-06-1897 Vienna: Health.
- 10-06-1897 Vienna: Health. Severe attack of pharyngitis.
- 11-06-1897 Vienna: Health. Operation. Angina. Abscess in the throat is removed. First week high fever. Mahler needs to rest in bed. Kitzbuhel: Justine (Ernestine) Rose-Mahler (1868-1938), Emma Marie Eleanor Rose-Mahler (1875-1933), Natalie Bauer-Lechner (1858-1921) and Elise (cook) had taken a small house (Villa Hochenegg) in Kitzbuhel for the summer. Owner Dr. Julius Hochenegg (1859-1940).
- 12-06-1897 Vienna: Health.
- 13-06-1897 Vienna: Health.
- 14-06-1897 Vienna: Health. Mahler joined his sisters in Villa Hochenegg in Kitzbuhel and is cut off from the world.
- 14-06-1897 Kitzbuhel: Health. Villa Hochenegg.
- 15-06-1897 Kitzbuhel: Health.
- 16-06-1897 Kitzbuhel: Health.
- 17-06-1897 Kitzbuhel: Three days later an epidemic of scarlet fever broke out in the Kitzbuhel. They decided to abandon the paradise, especially since Mahler was still very weak. They stopped briefly in Innsbruck before finding in Steinach am Brenner a most attractive house. The spend the last 10 days of June Steinach am Brenner. Villa Zirmheim.
- 18-06-1897 Steinach am Brenner: Death Franz Krenn (1816-1897) in Sankt-Andra-Wordern (Austria).
- 19-06-1897 Steinach am Brenner:
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- 24-06-1897 Steinach am Brenner:
- 25-06-1897 Steinach am Brenner:
- 26-06-1897 Steinach am Brenner:
- 27-06-1897 Steinach am Brenner: Letter from Gustav Mahler from Villa Zirmheim about the surroundings.
- 28-06-1897 Steinach am Brenner:
- 29-06-1897 Steinach am Brenner:
- 30-06-1897 Gries: Bicycle accident on the way from Gries to Innsbruck.
- 01-07-1897 Gries: Visits Steinbach am Brenner, Vahrn near Brixen in the South Tyrol, first briefly tours the Pustertal (Toblach).
- 02-07-1897 Gries:
- 03-07-1897 Gries:
- 04-07-1897 Gries:
- 05-07-1897 Gries:
- 06-07-1897 Gries:
- 07-07-1897 Gries: Anniversary (37) Gustav Mahler (1860-1911).
- 08-07-1897 Gries: Gustav Mahler climbed to 2,500 metres.
- 09-07-1897 Gries:
- 10-07-1897 Gries:
- 11-07-1897 Gries:
- 12-07-1897 Gries:
- 13-07-1897 Gries: In Vienna Josef Freiherr von Bezecny (1829-1904) (general manager Vienna State Opera (Hofoper, Wiener Staatsoper) tells Wilhelm Jahn (1835-1900) (director Vienna State Opera (Hofoper, Wiener Staatsoper) that Gustav Mahler is his replacement during his absence due to his illness. Named substitute director of Vienna State Opera.
- 14-07-1897 Gries:
- 15-07-1897 Gries: Moved to Vahrn.
- 16-07-1897 Vahrn: Villa Mair.
- 17-07-1897 Vahrn:
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- 27-07-1897 Vahrn: Travels back to Vienna.
- 28-07-1897 Vienna:
- 29-07-1897 Vienna: Postcard from Vahrn to Justine (Ernestine) Rose-Mahler (1868-1938) with the address Villa Mair.
- 30-07-1897 Vienna:
- 31-07-1897 Vienna:
- 01-08-1897 Vienna: 1897 Opera Vienna 01-08-1897. Lohengrin. Conducts 107 performances at Vienna State Opera until 03-06-1898.
- 02-08-1897 Vienna:
- 03-08-1897 Vienna: 1897 Opera Vienna 03-08-1897.
- 04-08-1897 Vienna: 1897 Opera Vienna 04-08-1897.
- 05-08-1897 Vienna:
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- 07-08-1897 Vienna: 1897 Opera Vienna 07-08-1897.
- 08-08-1897 Vienna:
- 09-08-1897 Vienna:
- 10-08-1897 Vienna: Rudolf von Liechtenstein (1838-1908) (Obersthofmeister) meets Josef Freiherr von Bezecny (1829-1904) (intendant) to make arrangements of the decharge of Wilhelm Jahn (1835-1900). Vienna State Opera (Hofoper, Wiener Staatsoper).
- 11-08-1897 Vienna: 1897 Opera Vienna 11-08-1897.
- 12-08-1897 Vienna:
- 13-08-1897 Vienna:
- 14-08-1897 Vienna: 1897 Opera Vienna 14-08-1897. Le nozze di Figaro.
- 15-08-1897 Vienna: 1897 Opera Vienna 15-08-1897.
- 16-08-1897 Vienna:
- 17-08-1897 Vienna: 1897 Opera Vienna 17-08-1897. Der Freischütz; renews contact with Hugo Wolf (1860-1903).
- 18-08-1897 Vienna:
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- 22-08-1987 Vienna: 1897 Opera Vienna 22-08-1897.
- 23-08-1897 Vienna:
- 24-08-1897 Vienna:
- 25-08-1897 Vienna: 1897 Opera Vienna 25-08-1897. Das Rheingold.
- 26-08-1897 Vienna: 1897 Opera Vienna 26-08-1897. Die Walküre.
- 27-08-1897 Vienna: Letter to Hans Richter (1843-1916): Copy in unknown hand (same as 12-04-1897). Mahler offers Richter Il barbiere di Siviglia to conduct, and discusses other repertoire problems. Tells Richter of his efforts to assure critics of the friendship between the two of them.
- 28-08-1997 Vienna: 1897 Opera Vienna 28-08-1897. Siegfried.
- 29-08-1897 Vienna: 1897 Opera Vienna 29-08-1897. Götterdämmerung (with Waltraute scene reinstated).
- 30-08-1897 Vienna:
- 31-08-1897 Vienna: 1897 Opera Vienna 31-08-1897.
- 01-09-1897 Vienna: 1897 Opera Vienna 01-09-1897.
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- 05-09-1897 Vienna: 1897 Opera Vienna 08-09-1897.
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- 08-09-1897 Vienna: 1897 Opera Vienna 08-09-1897.
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- 11-09-1897 Vienna: 1897 Opera Vienna 11-09-1897. Lortzing’s Zar und Zimmermann.
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- 14-09-1897 Vienna: 1897 Opera Vienna 14-09-1897.
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- 18-09-1897 Vienna:
- 19-09-1897 Vienna: Disagreement between Gustav Mahler and Hugo Wolf (1860-1903) (37) about Wolf's wish to perform his opera Der Corregidor in Vienna. This seems to be the beginning of Wolf's mental problems. Later that day Wolf said he became director of the Vienna State Opera (Hofoper, Wiener Staatsoper). This and other uncontrolled behavior, try to arrange his friends care for him. Approximate date.
- 19-09-1897 Vienna:
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- 21-09-1897 Vienna: 1897 Opera Vienna 21-09-1897.
- 22-09-1897 Vienna: 1897 Opera Vienna 22-09-1897.
- 23-09-1897 Vienna: 1897 Opera Vienna 23-09-1897.
- 24-09-1897 Vienna:
- 25-09-1897 Vienna:
- 26-09-1897 Vienna:
- 27-09-1897 Vienna: 1897 Opera Vienna 27-09-1897. Gustav Mahler seigns a contract with Josef Weinberger (Weinberger music publishers) to print his Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen.
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- 01-10-1897 Vienna:
- 02-10-1897 Vienna: 1897 Opera Vienna 02-10-1897.
- 03-10-1897 Vienna:
- 04-10-1897 Vienna: 1897 Opera Vienna 04-10-1897. Dalibor.
- 05-10-1897 Vienna: 1897 Opera Vienna 05-10-1897. Mahler is aanwezig bij de Weense premiere van Giacomo Puccini’s (38) La Bohème. De hele voorstelling zit hij spottelijk te lachen.
- 06-10-1897 Vienna: Anniversary (30) Alois (Louis) Mahler (1867-1931).
- 07-10-1897 Vienna: 1897 Opera Vienna 07-10-1897
- 08-10-1897 Vienna: Formally appointment (for life) to succeed Wilhelm Jahn (1835-1900) as artistic director of the Vienna State Opera (Hofoper, Wiener Staatsoper). Starting 15-10-1897. Salary: 12,000 guilders, expenses: 1,000 guilders, pension: 3,000 guilders. His first production in his new office was Smetana's Czech nationalist opera Dalibor, with a reconstituted finale that left the hero Dalibor alive. This production caused anger among the more extreme Viennese German nationalists, who accused Mahler of "fraternising with the anti-dynastic, inferior Czech nation". Gustav Mahler appointed director of Vienna State Opera.
- 09-10-1897 Vienna: 1897 Opera Vienna 09-10-1897.
- 10-10-1897 Vienna: 1897 Opera Vienna 10-10-1897.
- 11-10-1897 Vienna:
- 12-10-1897 Vienna: 1897 Opera Vienna 12-10-1897.
- 13-10-1897 Vienna: 1897 Opera Vienna 13-10-1897.
- 14-10-1897 Vienna:
- 15-10-1897 Vienna:
- 16-10-1897 Vienna: 1897 Opera Vienna 16-10-1897. New production of Die Zauberflöte.
- 17-10-1897 Vienna:
- 18-10-1897 Vienna: 1897 Opera Vienna 18-10-1897.
- 19-10-1897 Vienna: Anniversary (22) Emma Marie Eleanor Rosé-Mahler (1875-1933).
- 20-10-1897 Vienna: 1897 Opera Vienna 20-10-1897.
- 21-10-1897 Vienna:
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- 23-10-1897 Vienna: 1897 Opera Vienna 23-10-1897.
- 24-10-1897 Vienna: 1897 Opera Vienna 24-10-1897. Tristan und Isolde.
- 25-10-1897 Vienna:
- 26-10-1897 Vienna:
- 27-10-1897 Vienna: 1897 Opera Vienna 27-10-1897. Zauberflote.
- 28-10-1897 Vienna: 1897 Opera Vienna 28-10-1897. Tannhäuser.
- 29-10-1897 Vienna:
- 30-10-1897 Vienna:
- 31-10-1897 Vienna: 1897 Opera Vienna 31-10-1897. Fledermaus. In presence of Johan Jr. Strauss (1825-1899).
- 01-11-1897 Vienna: 1897 Opera Vienna 01-11-1897. Tristan und Isolde. In presence of Wilhelm Kienzl (1857-1941) who came from Graz to play Gustav Mahler the score of his Don Quixote.
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- 04-11-1897 Vienna: 1897 Opera Vienna 04-11-1897. Dalibor.
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- 08-11-1897 Vienna: 1897 Opera Vienna 08-11-1897.
- 09-11-1897 Vienna: 1897 Opera Vienna 09-11-1897.
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- 11-11-1897 Vienna: 1897 Opera Vienna 11-11-1897.
- 12-11-1897 Vienna: 1897 Opera Vienna 12-11-1897.
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- 17-11-1897 Vienna: 1897 Opera Vienna 17-11-1897.
- 18-11-1897 Vienna:
- 19-11-1897 Vienna: 1897 Opera Vienna 19-11-1897. Vienna premiere of Eugene Onegin.
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- 22-11-1897 Vienna: 1897 Opera Vienna 22-11-1897.
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- 25-11-1897 Vienna: 1897 Opera Vienna 25-11-1897.
- 26-11-1897 Vienna:
- 27-11-1897 Vienna: Death Bernhard Pollini (1838-1897) in Hamburg (Germany).
- 28-11-1897 Vienna: 1897 Opera Vienna 28-11-1897.
- 29-11-1897 Vienna: 1897 Opera Vienna 29-11-1897.
- 30-11-1897 Vienna:
- 00-12-1897 Vienna: Publication Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen at Verlag Weinberger.
- 01-12-1897 Vienna: 1897 Opera Vienna 01-12-1897.
- 02-12-1897 Vienna: 1897 Opera Vienna 02-12-1897.
- 03-12-1897 Vienna: 1897 Opera Vienna 03-12-1897.
- 04-12-1897 Vienna: 1897 Opera Vienna 04-12-1897. New production of Der fliegende Holländer.
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- 06-12-1897 Vienna: 1897 Opera Vienna 06-12-1897.
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- 09-12-1897 Vienna: 1897 Opera Vienna 09-12-1897.
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- 13-12-1897 Vienna: 1897 Opera Vienna 13-12-1897.
- 14-12-1897 Vienna: 1897 Opera Vienna 14-12-1897.
- 15-12-1897 Vienna: Anniversary (29) Justine (Ernestine) Rose-Mahler (1868-1938). Death Karl von Weber (1849-1897) in Dresden (Germany).
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- 18-12-1897 Vienna: Anna Bahr-von Mildenburg (1872-1947) joins Vienna State Opera, to be followed soon afterwards by the Wagnerian tenor Erik Schmedes (1868-1931). Weinberger music publishers publishes Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen.
- 19-12-1897 Vienna: 1897 Opera Vienna 19-12-1897.
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- 25-12-1897 Vienna: Christmas at Semmering.
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- 28-12-1897 Vienna: 1897 Opera Vienna 28-12-1897.
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