 "Neue Freie Presse", Vienna, 28.7.1872, p. 7).Natalie was only 14 years old.In light of what happened three years later (her sudden marriage and becoming the stepmother of three children) it is difficult to see how she would find time to take part in the orchestral rehearsals at the Conservatoire during Mahler's student years from 1875-1878, as Bauer-Lechner later claims in her memoirs on Mahler.