Following our mini-feature on composers who smoked, it turns out that a reader happens to own Gustav Mahler’s initialled cigarette case.
He was never, by all accounts, a heavy smoker, but he clearly needed to have a pack at all times about his person.
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That’s interesting. I don’t recall ever seeing a photo of him smoking.
I have seen only two photos of Mahler smoking. One is at an outdoor party, standing, smoking a cigar. The other is allegedly of him on a New York street in 1910, but hard to tell (IMHO) that it is Mahler.
https://www.reddit.com/r/classicalmusic/comments/an9ir0/mahler_partying/