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The Family of Leonard Bernstein and the Leonard Bernstein Office mourn the death of mezzo-soprano Christa Ludwig, who died on Saturday at the age of 93. Leonard Bernstein and Ludwig shared a close personal friendship and collaborated in many performances and recordings, including Mahler’s Symphony No. 2, Das Lied von der Erde, and Des Knaben Wunderhorn, Richard Strauss’s "Der Rosenkavalier" (1968) and Bernstein’s Symphony No. 1 'Jeremiah.” In June of 1973, Ludwig sang a collection of Brahms Lied