 Victor Hugo in "Les Misérables" calls the huntsman's chorus in act 3 "perhaps the most beautiful piece of music ever composed".During his term as director of the Vienna State Opera, Gustav Mahler mounted a new production of "Euryanthe" in 1903.Despite amendments in the libretto by Mahler himself (who described von Chézy as a "poetess with a full heart and an empty head") and a few changes in the score there were only five performances.