MAHLER GUSTAV Autograph Letter Signed to an unnamed recipien

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MAHLER, GUSTAV. Autograph Letter Signed, to an unnamed recipient ("Dear esteemed Colleague"), in German, requesting the use of a platform, podium, and music stands for a concert on the 18th of this month. 2 pages, 8vo, with integral blank; horizontal fold. "57. Rue de Varenne" [Paris], [April 1910]?

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"Having just arrived in Paris, permit me to repeat the request already put to you by Embassy Official Dumba to be so kind as to let us use the platform and the podium material, music stands, etc., for our concert on 18 inst. In expressing the hope of meeting my illustrious colleague during my stay in Paris . . . ."
The concert Mahler refers to may be the French premiere of his Second Symphony in Paris on April 17, 1910, at which Claude Debussy and Paul Dukas walked out before the end of the concert.