Inspiration

This evening to the RFH  to hear the Mahler Symphony No. 1, the third movement of which was tremendous and the mood of which last is well expressed by this wood cut.

Have yet to find the painting, if any, from which the wood cut was taken. But it is all to do with the Austrian artist Moritz von Schwind and the year 1850. An artist who, it seems, sometimes used to drink with Schubert.

Image from http://gustavmahler.com/. But the diagram of the orchestra therein is not quite what we had this evening.

To be continued.