Vienna, Which Turned Its Back On Mahler, Embraces Him

“Although everyone, from Emperor Franz-Josef down, acknowledged his success in galvanizing a stagnant art, Mahler was treated as an outsider and subjected to a barrage of anti- Semitic abuse — the most vicious of its kind until the Hitler era.” Now, “[w]ithout admitting it was wrong about Mahler,” the city “is working hard to adjust its attitudes.”