It is sad that the Mahler Festwochen passed up the opportunity to perform Alban Berg's 10 (yes that is not a mistake!) Early Songs which would have meant a first performance in the Austria that Gustav Mahler and Alban Berg knew of Berg's original concept of a song cycle which included 3 songs he composed as 'love gifts' for the woman he married, Helene Nahowski. Toblach, of course, is a long way from Vienna where Berg lived all if his life - but it would have been a start!
It is sad that the Mahler Festwochen passed up the opportunity to perform Alban Berg's 10 (yes that is not a mistake!) Early Songs which would have meant a first performance in the Austria that Gustav Mahler and Alban Berg knew of Berg's original concept of a song cycle which included 3 songs he composed as 'love gifts' for the woman he married, Helene Nahowski. Toblach, of course, is a long way from Vienna where Berg lived all if his life - but it would have been a start!