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Nov 21, 2018 · Rewriting history by Alma Mahler. The Alma problem is an issue of concern to musicologists, historians and biographers who deal with the lives and works of Gustav Mahler and his wife Alma. Alma Mahler (ultimately Alma Mahler Gropius Werfel) was not only an articulate, well-connected and influential woman, but she also went on to outlive her ...
Jun 13, 2019 · Born into the dying days of the Habsburg Empire, Alma Mahler was at the epicentre of fin de siècle Vienna's artistic and intellectual life. A talented composer in her own right, she was open, generous, remarkably creative, curious, challenging and zealous in her pursuit of love. Artists, architects, musicians and writers jostled to join her ...
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Sep 16, 2019 · By Cate Haste. September 16, 2019. When Alma Mahler walked into a room, heads turned. Her magnetic presence and charismatic allure were like “an electric charge” in any gathering. She was a femme fatale who commanded fascination, adoration, and love and could enchant people in seconds. At the age of nineteen, with clear skin, an enigmatic ...
Mahler, Alma (1879–1964)Cultivated and talented beauty from turn-of-the-century Vienna who, through her romantic involvements, provided both stimulus and emotional shelter to several of the leading figures in the European world of the arts . Name variations: Alma Mahler-Gropius; Alma Mahler-Werfel. Pronunciation: MAH-ler, VER-fel.
Alma Mahler, the daughter of Emil Schindler, painter to the Austor-Hungarian court, was born in 1879. In 1915, four years after the death of Gustav Mahler, she married Walter Gropius, who would soon found the world-renowned Bauhaus. When their fitful relationship ended in divorce she married the novelist Franz Werfel (1890-1945). After Memories ...
Biography Alma Maria Mahler Gropius Werfel (born Alma Margaretha Maria Schindler; August 31, 1879 – December 11, 1964) was a Viennese-born composer, author, editor, and socialite. At fifteen, she was mentored by Max Burckhard.
May 14, 2024 · Gustav Mahler (born July 7, 1860, Kaliště, Bohemia, Austrian Empire—died May 18, 1911, Vienna, Austria) was an Austrian Jewish composer and conductor, noted for his 10 symphonies and various songs with orchestra, which drew together many different strands of Romanticism. Although his music was largely ignored for 50 years after his death ...
