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"Morning in Viena: chaos. One clutches at details that cannot yet be known. He is to be buried in the small cementery in Grinzing, beside his little daughter. The body is taken there. The next morning: the road leads across country to cypress trees. the chapel is a confined space, only enough for the coffin and a couple of wreaths. The others line the paths as far as the grave. A woman comes past, and says to another woman, 'Now he´s got peace in there. Everything was too small for him anyway'.
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And then comes the ceremony. We stand in front of the church as the coffin is carried out. It is raining. We can get to the grave faster by taking a path through the vineyards. The procession arrives. the rain stops. A nightingale sings, and the clods of earth thud down. A rainbow. And the people in their hundreds are silent".

Paul Stefan about Gustav Mahler´s funeral. May 22, 1911

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