>The contemporary conductor CHRISTOPH VON DOHNANYI is more specific:
>Mahler was the first composer who somehow meets a democratic social structure. He can be enjoyed by people both with and without an education. In a very extensive way he has a certain style of music-making which can be misunderstood tremendously. Someone who is educated by magazines, a Reader's Digest education, can enjoy Mahler. But I believe that if you don't know everything that was important in his time-Schreker, Zemlinsky, Klimt, Schiele, Kokoshka--you cannot really understand Mahler. If you are just exposed to Mahler without knowledge of Mahler, people can enjoy it.