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Article: Gustav Mahler and Hungary.
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- September 1, 1994
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In the course of Gustav Mahler's career as a conductor, he advanced from temporary work in provincial theaters to the directorship of the Court Opera in Vienna. The three seasons he spent as director of the Royal Hungarian Opera in Budapest (1888-91) have been unevenly documented hitherto. Gustav Mahler and Hungary answers a longstanding need, giving full import to Mahler's tenure in Budapest as a pivotal period in his conducting career.
The previous literature has been spotty and general at best. Zoltan Roman himself contributed "Operatic Staging under Gustav Mahler in Budapest and Vienna" (International Musicological Society: Report of the Twelfth Congress, ...