Natalie Bauer-Lechner

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Natalie Bauer-Lechner (born May 9, 1858 in Penzing , today in Vienna , † June 8, 1921 in Vienna) was a violist and long-time confidante of Gustav Mahler . Her “Mahleriana”, which is based on a private diary that has not survived from 1890–1912, offers valuable insights into Mahler's professional and private life during those years.

Life

Natalia Anna Juliana Bauer-Lechner was the eldest daughter of the Viennese university bookseller Rudolf Lechner (1822–1895) and Julia, b. von Winiwarter (1831–1905). She studied violin and piano accompaniment at the Vienna Conservatory , where she graduated in 1872. On December 27, 1875, at the age of seventeen, she married the widowed professor of chemical technology at the Vienna University of Technology , Alexander Bauer (1836–1921), who was born on February 16, 1836 in Mosonmagyaróvár . Bauer's little daughters were eleven, eight and one year old at the time. On June 19, 1885, the marriage was divorced by mutual agreement.

From 1885 until her death, Natalie Bauer-Lechner lived as a violist and violin teacher in Vienna. From 1895 to 1913 she played the viola in Marie Soldat-Röger's women's string quartet (1st violin), together with Elly Finger-Bailetti (2nd violin, from 1898 Elsa von Plank) and Lucy Herbert-Campbell (cello, from 1903 Leontine Gardener). The quartet made its debut on March 11, 1895 in the Bösendorfer Hall in Vienna and gave a total of 51 concerts between 1895 and 1913 in Vienna and others on tours abroad. Bauer-Lechner joined Gustav Mahler after their failed marriage, the close relationship ended after Mahler's engagement to Alma Schindler . The central period of contact between Mahler and Bauer-Lechner is the period between 1890 and 1901.

In the advanced years Natalie Bauer-Lechner developed into a feminist and pacifist . In 1907 she published the book Fragments in her father's publishing house . What has been learned and lived , a collection of aphorisms and essays on artistic, political, philosophical and psychological topics in which there is a strong reference to the question of women . Especially in the chapters Career and Love , Socialism and Women's Issues , Raising Children , Women - Sexual Issues and Women's Clothing , issues specific to women are dealt with in concrete terms . The anti-war article About the War , published in 1918 , resulted in a prison sentence for high treason . In 1921 Natalie Bauer-Lechner stayed in the sanatorium of the Viennese merchants until February 26th. She then lived in her brother Oskar's house until her death on June 8, 1921. There she was cared for at an agreed daily rate of 300 crowns. The estate including her violin was set at 77,000 kroner, which contradicts the death in poverty reported in other sources. Natalie Bauer-Lechner was buried in the crypt of the Lechner family at Vienna's central cemetery. Fragments of the “Mahleriana” were published anonymously in Der Merker (April 1913) and in Musikblätter des Anbruch (April 1920). Memories of Gustav Mahler came out in 1923. The material is currently owned by Mahler researcher Henry-Louis de La Grange . The manuscript is not intact. Numerous pages were torn out by an unknown hand.

Others

Natalie Bauer-Lechner was the great-aunt of Herbert Killian , the " nestor of forest history " in Austria. In 1984 Killian published her collected "Memories of Gustav Mahler" ( Gustav Mahler in the memoirs of Natalie Bauer-Lechner ).

Works

  • Fragments: what has been learned and lived . Vienna 1907
  • Memories of Gustav Mahler . EP Tal & Co., Vienna-Leipzig 1923 ( archive.org ). Revised and expanded edition: Herbert Killian (ed.), Knud Martner (notes): Gustav Mahler in the memoirs of Natalie Bauer-Lechner. Wagner, Hamburg 1984, ISBN 3-921029-92-9 .

literature

  • Helmut Brenner , Reinhold Kubik : Mahler's people. Friends and companions. Residenz-Verlag, St. Pölten / Salzburg / Vienna 2014, ISBN 978-3-7017-3322-4 , pp. 89–90.
  • Review of memories of Gustav Mahler . In: Hermann Bahr : Love of the Living. Diaries 1921/23 . Volume 3. Borgmeyer, Hildesheim 1925, pp. 222-223 (Diary. September 15 [1923]).

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Helmut Brenner , Reinhold Kubik : Mahler's people. Friends and companions. Residenz-Verlag, St. Pölten / Salzburg / Vienna 2014, ISBN 978-3-7017-3322-4 , p. 17.
  2. ↑ a b c Helmut Brenner , Reinhold Kubik : Mahler's people. Friends and companions. Residenz-Verlag, St. Pölten / Salzburg / Vienna 2014, ISBN 978-3-7017-3322-4 , p. 19.
  3. ↑ ZDB ID 799323-7 .
  4. ↑ Herbert Killian - 85 years old , page on: BauernZeitung.at , accessed on June 18, 2014.
  5. ^ Library of Congress Authorities: Entry on Herbert Killian , accessed June 18, 2014.
personal data
SURNAME Bauer-Lechner, Natalie
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Violist and long-time confidante of Gustav Mahler
DATE OF BIRTH May 9, 1858
PLACE OF BIRTH Penzing , today in Vienna
DATE OF DEATH June 8, 1921
Place of death Vienna