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General Category => Gustav Mahler and Related Discussions => Topic started by: David Boxwell on March 06, 2020, 09:24:26 PM
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[The elderly Baroness Geldern] pressed her narrow lips together and said ornamentally, "Perhaps it is retrograde on our part not to have learned to appreciate that ugly art is better than beautiful art. I cannot get it into my head," she confessed and smiled wanly, "that Gustav Mahler is supposed to be more worthwhile than my Mendelssohn-Bartholdly . . ."
Klaus Mann, "Der Fromme Tanz" ("The Pious Dance", 1925 [trans. Laurence Senelick])
Are there earlier allusions in creative writing to GM before 1925?