Alma schindler mahler biography
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Alma Mahler
Austrian composer (–)
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| Born | Alma Margaretha Maria Schindler ()31 August Vienna, Austria-Hungary |
| Died | 11 månad () (aged&#;85) New York City, US |
| Burial place | Grinzing Cemetery, Vienna |
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| Spouses | Gustav Mahler &#; &#; (m.&#;; died&#;)&#;Walter Gropius &#; &#; (m.&#;; div.&#;)&#;Franz Werfel &#; &#; (m.&#;; died&#;)&#; |
| Children | 4, including Anna and Manon |
Alma Mahler-Werfel (born Alma Margaretha Maria Schindler; 31 August – 11 December ) was an Austrian composer, author, editor, and socialite. Musically active from her early years, she was the composer of nearly fifty songs for voice and piano, and works in other genres as well. 17 songs are known to have survived. At 15, she was mentored by Max Burckhard.[1]
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“To my darling Almscherl, the faithful and courageous companion everywhere inom go.” Gustav Mahler wrote these words on the flyleaf of his Fifth Symphony in He was enjoying the happiest time in his marriage, after his wedding just two years earlier to the beautiful young Alma Schindler, the daughter of a respected landscape painter and a singer. He was also scaling great heights in his professional career.
Since , he had been the director of the Vienna State Opera, where he had introduced many innovations. He was a respected figure who alternated his career at the opera with creative periods of composition in the quieter summer months.
Alma Schindler: composer, muse, femme fatale?
Gustav was not Alma’s first love, and neither would he be her last. After a brief, amorous encounter with Gustav Klimt that was severely condemned by Alma’s mother, the first person that Alma wrote about in her diary with love and desire was the composer Alexander von Zemlinsky. Zemlinsky, who also co
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The most beautiful girl in Vienna ( - )
Alma was born in Vienna on 31 August , daughter of landscape painter Emil Jakob Schindler and Hamburg singer Anna Sofie Bergen.
Alma, aged 3, on her grandmother's lap | Alma's father, painter Emil Jakob Schindler | Singer Anna von Bergen, Alma's mother |
Finances in the Schindler household were very tight, and the family had to share their apartment with Schindler's artist colleague, Julius Victor Berger, with whom Alma's mother soon began an affair, and from which Alma's half-sister Grete was born in In the same year, Schindler was awarded a prominent art prize, which ended the family's financial misery and enabled them to move to Schloss Plankenberg near Tulln. As a result of a commission from Crown Prince Rudolf in to paint the coastal localities of Dalmatia, Schindler became one of the most important artists of the Habsburg Monarchy.
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