Another triumph was the German premiere of Tchaikovsky's Eugene Onegin, in the presence of the composer, who called Mahler's conducting "astounding," and later asserted in a letter that he believed Mahler was "positively a genius."
Outro triunfo foi a estrea alemá de Evgenii Onegin de Tchaikovski, en presenza do compositor ruso, quen describiu a dirección de Mahler como "abraiante", logo afirmou nunha carta que cría que Mahler era "totalmente un xenio".