1 Larry Glazener is a former double bassist with the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra 2 De La Grange also mentions the existence of the postcards. In footnote 391 ( Henry_Louis de La Grange, Gustav Mahler. A New Life Cut Short (1907-1911 , Oxford University Press, New York, 2008, page 211): On August 24 (…) Mahler sent postcards to Hammerschlag's two daughters, Elisabeth (Lilly) and Margarete( Gretl ), quoting the opening bars of Zerlina's two arias in Don Giovanni. Photocopies of these various letters and cards were made available to this author by Eisabeth/Elisabeth Duschnitz Hammerschlag . 3 Küb is a district in the municipality of Payerbach. In the year 1905 a post office was opened in Küb because a staff member, confidant of Empress Zita, was staying in house number 7 and was therefore easily reachable for the empress. The post office was closed in 2004 and is now a historical post office museum. See also: https://www.lower-austria.info/excursion-destinations/a-nostalgiepostamt-kueb 4 Martin Issep (1930-2011) is a son of the third daughter of the banker Hammerschlag : Helena ( Helli ) Hammerschlag (1899-1968), She married Sebastian Mathias Isepp . Her son Martin married Rose Harris. In 2023, she published her memories of her husband in the book A Musician's Odyssey : Remembering Martin Isepp, Kelsons Press, London , 2023. This book features the photographs of the back of the postcards to Grethl and Lilly Hammerschlag as well as the photo of Mahler with Grethl at the piano. The mentioned Skizzenblatt by Mahler, which eventually came into the hands of Rose Isepp – Harris, came under the hammer at an auction house. After asking Rose Isepp, she no longer knows who the current owner (private collection or in the public domain) of the Skizzenblatt is.
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