Philip Peters ([log in to unmask]) wrote:

>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.  ...
>
>...  In effect Furtwangler actually even premiered at least one Mahler
>symphony and conducted quite a few others (not post-war BTW).

Premiered? The only references I can find are (as I said earlier) to M1, M3
and M4 in Vienna, Leipzig and Berlin - i.e.  Austria and Germany.  Were any
of these national premieres? Don't think so.

OTOH Furtwaengler *did* conduct the US premiere, in 1927, of - Beethoven's
Leonore No.2...

deryk barker
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