Aufführung der 1. Symphonie durch das Wiener Sinfonie-Orchester unter Robert Heger im Großen Musikvereinssaal in Wien (*).

The Hartford Courant (Hartford, Connecticut) berichtet auf S. 19 über das Konzert vom 9.10.1939 mit der 7. Symphonie:

"            The Observation Post

      By Walter Brown, Dramatic Editor

[...]

                Mr. Spalding In Berlin.

     Albert Spalding was in Berlin last Thursday evening as solist with the Hamburg Philharmonic Orchestra playing under the baton of Dr. Karl Muck. [... Auszug aus einer Kritik – "a special cable to the New York Times", diese ausführlich über Beethovens Violinkonzert und den Solisten ...]. He enjoyed the benefit of the superb accompaniment of Dr. Muck, who later had a triumph of his own in response to his incomparable presentation of Bruckner's "Seventh Symphony," a work which received the first Berlin hearing under his baton thirty-seven years ago." [recte: unter Klindworth am 31.1.1887] (**).