 As a trained professional musician, Bauer-Lechner grasped the technical and aesthetic content of Mahler's conversation.She noted many of his statements about music, literature, philosophy and life at some length and apparently verbatim.In her later years, Bauer-Lechner became an outspoken feminist, and in 1918 she allegedly published an article on the war and the need for female suffrage, which led to her arrest and imprisonment.