Natalie Bauer-Lechner
Mahler's Confidante and Pioneer of Her Time
6th Gustav Mahler Festival 2022 in Steinbach am Attersee
What I am most grateful to the godhead for in my life is that it let me [...] meet Mahler."
Natalie Bauer-Lechner in her will
Natalie Bauer-Lechner was a violist and for more than 10 years a close friend of Mahler and his siblings. In the summers of 1893 to 1896 she was a permanent guest in Steinbach, coordinated the construction of the composing hut and accompanied Mahler on countless trips. As a musician and admirer of Mahler she wrote down her conversations with the composer with a richness of content and detail that makes these remembrances invaluable. But Bauer-Lechner was also an author, a champion of human rights, feminist, pacifist, a woman ahead of her time.
Program 2022
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Wednesday - July, 6th 2022
Pre-Program
INTRODUCTION AND READING
NEW MATERIAL FROM NATALIE BAUER-LECHNER'S RECOLLECTIONS
17:00 Christian Ludwig Attersee Saal, Steinbach
Unpublished texts from Natalie Bauer-Lechner's diaries from the forthcoming edition by Stephen Hefling and Morten Solvik.
SPECIAL EVENT
Dining with Gustav Mahler An Unforgettable Evening
19:00 near the church of Steinbach
A memorable dinner with a beautiful view of Lake Attersee in honor of the person at the center of this year's Mahler Festival: Natalie Bauer-Lechner.
We conclude the evening with a special tribute to Mahler's favorite dish: Marillenknödel, apricot dumpling.
Mahler and Marillenknödel
The Gustav Mahler Festival at Steinbach am Attersee, in cooperation with the EU project Up-Create, is taking this favorite dish of the famous Austrian composer as an occasion to call for a unique competition. Young composers are invited to write a work for chamber ensemble inspired by this topic. The world premiere and awarding of the first prize will take place at the Mahler Dinner. The winner will be invited to take part in the Up-Create event at this year’s Biennale in Venice in November 2022. For more: http://up-create.eu/
Thursday - July, 7th 2022
FESTIVE OPENING
17:00 - Mahler's Composing Hut, Seefeld
Reception with aperitif and the opening of the 6th Gustav Mahler Festival and Special Exhibition 2022 with special guests.
NATALIE BAUER-LECHNER
IN SONG AND TEXT
19:00 - Festsaal Hotel Föttinger, Seefeld
Eva Tacha-Breitling, Recitation
Christina Gansch, Soprano
Deirdre Brenner, Piano
Excerpts from letters and texts from Natalie Bauer-Lechner's book, Fragmente. Gelerntes und Gelebtes as well as lieder by Franz Schubert, Ethel Smyth, Clara Schumann, Gustav Mahler, Richard Stöhr and Erich J. Wolff.
Friday - July, 8th 2022
LECTURE
NATALIE BAUER-LECHNER
Musician, Mahler Friend, Advocate of Women's Rights
Portrait of an Exceptional Woman (in German)
10:00 - Christian-Ludwig-Attersee-Saal, Steinbach
Prof. Dr. Franz Willnauer
Among the many women who accompanied Mahler's professional and private life, Natalie Bauer-Lechner holds a special place: as a musician colleague, soulmate, "never liberated bride" and loyal chronicler. What Eckermann was for Goethe, was Natalie for Gustav - a stroke of fortune. We profit from that to this day.
FILM PRESENTATION
"MY TIME WILL COME"
11:00 - Christian-Ludwig-Attersee-Saal, Steinbach
Gustav Mahler as remembered by Natalie Bauer-Lechner
Filmed in part in Steinbach am Attersee (2010)
including a talk with the director Beate Thalberg
Free admission but limited number of participants
CONCERT
STRING QUARTET
19:00 - Gustav-Mahler-Saal, Seefeld
Bauer-Lechner was the violist of the famous Soldat-Röger women's String Quartet from 1895 to 1913.
Soloists of the 1. Frauenkammerorchester von Österreich will perform works by Johanna Müller-Hermann, Vilma von Webenau and Fanny Mendelssohn-Hensel sowie pieces by Johanna Doderer and Gustav Mahler inspired by Alma Mahler.
Saturday - July, 9th 2022
ADVENTURE WALK
IN THE FOOTSTEPS OF GUSTAV MAHLER AND NATALIE BAUER-LECHNER AROUND STEINBACH
based on Bauer-Lechner's recollections
10:00 Attersee-Traunsee Nature Park,
Meeting point: garden terrace of Hotel Föttinger
Duration: ca. 2.5 hours incl. rest and musical performance
Transportation to resting spot is possible
Please wear clothing appropriate for the weather
The time has come for love seasonings, women's herbs, and manly plants. Let's explore nature as humanity's teacher - nature, with all its fragments joined together to form a whole. Learning and living on the edge of the fields in bloom.
CONCERT
WOMEN LOVING, MEN SUFFERING
19.00 Schloß Kammer, Schörfling
Iris Vermillion, Mezzo-Soprano
Christiane Behn, Piano
Whether earthly or heavenly - love inspires artistic expression, also in music. In this program we experience the personal sides of composers, male and female, that are variously connected with Mahler's biography.
Works for voice and piano by Gustav Mahler, Alma Mahler, Richard Wagner, Hermann Behn, Johannes Brahms, Ethel Smyth and Alexander Zemlinsky
Introduction by Prof. Dr. Franz Willnauer
Sunday - July, 10th 2022
MATINEE
Orchestra for the Earth
10:00 Gustav Mahler Saal, Seefeld
Orchestra for the Earth
The British chamber orchestra is our guest once again on their "Alpine Tour" with a concert matinee in Steinbach am Attersee featuring songs by Gustav and Alma Mahler, folk melodies by Dvořák and Berio as well as a chamber arrangement of Mahler's Symphony No. 1.
- Antonín Dvořák: Lieder from Zigeunermelodien Op.55
- Luciano Berio: “Black is the colour” and “I wonder as I wander” from Folk Songs
- Gustav Mahler: “Wer hat dies Liedlein erdacht?” from Des Knaben Wunderhorn
- Alma Mahler: “Laue Sommernacht” and “Die stille Stadt” from Fünf Lieder
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- Gustav Mahler: Symphony No. 1
Members of Orchestra for the Earth
Gabriella Noble, Mezzo-Soprano
John Warner, Conductor
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VERANSTALTUNGSTIPPS
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Kunstfestival Perspektiven Attersee
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