Visiting Gustav Mahler’s spiritual home: Amsterdam’s Concertgebouw

James Jolly
Friday, March 21, 2025

With Amsterdam’s Mahler Festival 2025 coming up, James Jolly reports from the Concertgebouw, and finds out about the city’s long association with the composer

Gustav Mahler at Amsterdam’s Concertgebouw on September 27, 1909, photographed by WA van Leer, with (standing, from left) Cornelis Dopper, Hendrik Freijer, Willem Mengelberg and Alphons Diepenbrock (photo: Archive of Willem Mengelberg)

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