Alma Mahler
Alma Maria Mahler Gropius Werfel (born Alma Maria Schindler; 31 August 1879 – 11 December 1964) was a Viennese-born socialite and composer. She became the wife, successively, of composer Gustav Mahler, architect Walter Gropius, and novelist Franz Werfel, as well as the consort of several other prominent men. Musically active from her teens, she was the composer of at least seventeen songs for voice and piano. In later years her salon became part of the artistic scene, first in Vienna, then in Los Angeles.
Biography
Alma Schindler was born in Vienna, Austria (then Austria-Hungary), to the landscape painter Emil Jakob Schindler and his wife Anna Bergen (1857–1938), in 1879. Although later in life Mahler characterized her upbringing as privileged, the family is said to have been only moderately successful. After her father's death (1892), her mother married her late husband's former pupil, Carl Moll, who was a co-founder of the Vienna Secession.
Romantic career
Alma's social interactions in her youth included friendships with the artists of the Vienna Secession, among them Gustav Klimt. As a young woman she had a series of flirtations, including Klimt, theater director Max Burckhard and composer Alexander von Zemlinsky.
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ALBUMS
Alexander Zemlinsky: Eine florentinische Tragödie / Alma Mahler: Lieder
Released 1997- Eine florentinische Tragödie: Ouvertüre
- Eine florentinische Tragödie: So lansam, Weib? (Simone)
- Eine florentinische Tragödie: Spinn ein Kleid, getaucht in Purpur (Simone)
- Eine florentinische Tragödie: Was gibt es Neues, mein Prinz? (Simone)
- Eine florentinische Tragödie: Wie er gleich einem schalen Krämer spricht! (Bianca)
- Eine florentinische Tragödie: Was ist das? (Simone)
- Eine florentinische Tragödie: Holdsel'ge Bianca (Guido)
- Eine florentinische Tragödie: Simone, jetzt muß ich nach Hause gehen (Guido)
- Die stille Stadt
- Laue Sommernacht
- Licht in der Nacht
- Waldseligkeit
- Bei dir ist es traut
- Erntelied
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