John Dalmas wrote:

>In an article about Bernstein and Mahler in the NY Times two Sundays
>ago composer David Schiff wrote that Wilhelm Furtwangler never performed
>a Mahler symphony.  I know this to be untrue recalling having read on
>the Mahler List a while back that Furtwangler conducted M1, 2, 3 and 4
>on several occasions in Germany and Austria between the two World Wars.
>Unfortunately, I don't remember the source of this information.  Does
>anyone have a clue?

There was some dicussion about this in rmcr.  I suggest you try to find
it at Google.  In effect Furtwangler actually even premiered at least one
Mahler symphony and conducted quite a few others (not post-war BTW).

Philip