• Year 1876 Gustav Mahler not present. First Festival in Bayreuth. Conductor Hans Richter (1843-1916). Attendees: Hans Rott (1858-1884), Henry Theophilus Finck (1854-1926). 13-08-1876.
• Year 1877 Gustav Mahler not present.
• Year 1878 Gustav Mahler not present.
• Year 1879 Gustav Mahler not present.
• Year 1880 Gustav Mahler not present.
• Year 1881 Gustav Mahler not present.
• Year 1882 Gustav Mahler not present.
• Year 1883 Richard Wagner (1813-1883) dies 13-02-1883. From 28-07-1882 until 15-08-1882 15 performances of Parsifal took place in Bayreuth. Visitors of this festival were Franz Liszt (1811-1886), Anton Bruckner (1824-1896), Elisabeth Nietsche, Lou von Salome, Malvida von Meysenbug, Eduard Hanslick (1825-1904) and a young Gustav Mahler (1860-1911). Ludwig II is not at this festival. First visit of Gustav Mahler to the Bayreuther Festspiele. Gustav Mahler is present at a performance of Parsifal in memory of Richard Wagner (1813-1883) in the Festspielhaus. Conductor is Hermann Levi (1839-1900). Gustav Mahler is bewildered and writes Friedrich Fritz Lohr (1859-1924) about it.
• Year 1884 Gustav Mahler not present.
• Year 1885 Gustav Mahler not present.
• Year 1886 Gustav Mahler not present.
• Year 1887 Gustav Mahler not present.
• Year 1888 Gustav Mahler not present.
• Year 1889 23-07-1889. Gustav Mahler (1860-1911) attended Parsifal by Hermann Levi (1839-1900), Tristan by Felix Mottl (1856-1911), Meistersinger by Hans Richter (1843-1916). Probably meeting Gustav Mahler with Cosima Wagner (1837-1930).
• Year 1890 No festival.
• Year 1891 30-07-1891. Gustav Mahler (1860-1911) attended Parsifal by Hermann Levi (1839-1900) (twice) and Tannhauser by Felix Mottl (1856-1911).
• Year 1892 Gustav Mahler not present.
• Year 1893 Gustav Mahler not present.
• Year 1894 Gustav Mahler (1860-1911). 28-07-1894 until 04-08-1894.
• Year 1895 No festival.
• Year 1896 Gustav Mahler (1860-1911) with Justine (Ernestine) Rose-Mahler (1868-1938). 09-08-1896 until 13-08-1896.

Year 1896 details:

• 09-08-1896 Bayreuth: With his sister Justine (Ernestine) Rose-Mahler (1868-1938) in Bayreuth for the complete Ring des Nebelungen, conductor Siegfried Wagner. (Day 1/4)
• 10-08-1896 Bayreuth: With his sister Justine (Ernestine) Rose-Mahler (1868-1938) in Bayreuth for the complete Ring des Nebelungen, conductor Siegfried Wagner. (Day 2/4)
• 11-08-1896 Bayreuth: With his sister Justine (Ernestine) Rose-Mahler (1868-1938) in Bayreuth for the complete Ring des Nebelungen, conductor Siegfried Wagner. (Day 3/4)
• 12-08-1896 Bayreuth: With his sister Justine (Ernestine) Rose-Mahler (1868-1938) in Bayreuth for the complete Ring des Nebelungen, conductor Siegfried Wagner. (Day 4/4)
• 13-08-1896 Bayreuth: With his sister Justine (Ernestine) Rose-Mahler (1868-1938) in Bayreuth.

1894. Lohengrin. Stage by Max Bruckner. Bayreuther Festspiele. Gustav Mahler himself in Bayreuth.

1896. Bayreuther Festspiele. Gustav Mahler himself in Bayreuth.

1896. Bayreuther Festspiele. Gustav Mahler himself in Bayreuth.

1896. Bayreuther Festspiele. Gustav Mahler himself in Bayreuth.

1896. Bayreuther Festspiele. Gustav Mahler himself in Bayreuth.

1896. Bayreuther Festspiele. Gustav Mahler himself in Bayreuth.

1896. Stage cloth Das Rheingold. Act I Nibelheim. (wood/paper). Bayreuther Festspiele. Gustav Mahler himself in Bayreuth.

• In 1901 Anna Bahr-von Mildenburg (1872-1947) at the festival.