1077429 Gustav Mahler, 1884 (b/w photo) by Austrian Photographer, (19th century); New York Public Library, USA; (add.info.: Gustav Mahler (7 July 1860 ??18 May 1911) was a late-Romantic composer and one of the leading conductors of his generation. A Jew, he was born in the village of Kalischt, Bohemia, in what was then the Austrian Empire, now Kali禳t? in the Czech Republic. His family later moved to nearby Iglau (now Jihlava), where Mahler grew up. From the Bruno Walter Papers/Photographs.); Austrian, out of copyright.