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Mar 28, 2019 · Gustav Mahler died in 1911 (coincidentally, on Gropius’s 28th birthday), but Alma Mahler’s resulting single status didn’t bring them together. Gropius was riddled with guilt for their affair ...
Nov 21, 2018 · 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 first husband by more than 50 years.
Sep 20, 2019 · Alma Mahler returns to Vienna after the Second World War. Credit: Haste writes — rightly, I suspect — that Alma’s music was an inner refuge from the tragedies that permeated her life, and a ...
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.
Gustav and Alma Mahler. Ever since the Adagietto from Mahler’s Fifth Symphony was used in the film Death in Venice, it has been regarded as a symbol of morbid beauty. In fact it is an expression of one of the most famous love stories in classical music: the story of Gustav and Alma Mahler.
Sep 6, 2020 · Mistress to a long succession of brilliant men, she married three of the best known: the composer Gustav Mahler, the architect Walter Gropius, and the writer Franz Werfel. Her admirers regarded Alma as a self-sacrificing figure of inspiration to great artists, many of whom indeed exhibited a remarkable devotion to her.
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