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6/28/2025, 5:22:07 AM
>As a young man in Vienna, he [Mahler] once arrived at the cloakroom at the end of a concert at the same time as Wagner. He had never seen Wagner before, and his awe and love were so great that his heart stopped beating. Mahler was standing right behind Wagner, who, having been handed his winter coat, was struggling to get his arms into it. But Mahler, overcome by a beatific shock at this sudden turn of events, stood there as though paralysed and frozen to the spot, incapable of assisting the man he worshipped and helping him into his winter coat! He told me that for several years he felt pained at the memory of this incident.
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