When Rodin met Mahler

In 1909 the great French artist Auguste Rodin sculpted the head of the famous Austrian composer Gustav Mahler.

Desert Island Discs (4) – Brahms and Mahler

Johannes Brahms composed his Piano Concerto No. 1 in D minor, Op. 15, in 1858. It was first performed the following year in Hanover, Germany, when Brahms was just 25 years old.