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	Alma Mahler - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Alma Maria Mahler (August 31, 1879 – December 11, 1964), noted in her native Vienna for her beauty and intelligence, was the wife, successively, of one of the century's leading composers (Gustav Mahler), architects (Walter Gropius), and novelists (Franz Werfel).
		Mahler had a single consultation with Dr. Sigmund Freud as to the causes for his dissatisfied relationship.
		Alma and Gropius's daughter, Manon (1916-1935), died of polio in 1935, aged eighteen.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Alma_Mahler (488 words)

	classical music - andante - gustav mahler
		Mahler began work on the Sixth Symphony in 1903 at a time when he had finally succeeded in imposing his authority and original ideas on the Vienna Court Opera, not least through what was to prove to be a longstanding collaboration with the great painter and designer Alfred Roller.
		Mahler was slowly beginning to gain recognition as a composer and in C.F. Peters had found one of the leading publishers in Germany to sell and market his new work, the Fifth Symphony.
		According to Alma, he later recognised in the three hammer blows of the final movement a premonition of the three blows of fate that were to fall on him in 1907: the death of his elder daughter, the diagnosis of a potentially dangerous heart condition and his departure from Vienna.
	www.andante.com /profiles/Mahler/symph6.cfm (3260 words)

	Commentary Magazine - Alma Redeemed (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		...Alma, a lovely, much sought-after young woman, one of the prettiest in Vienna in those days, felt Mahler was magnetic, but she wasn't sure she ought to marry him...
		...ALMA had met the man who later became her second husband, Walter Gropius, the architect, in a sanitarium, in Tobelbad, when, exhausted by Gustav's pace and striving, she was advised by a country doctor to take the cure...
		...Alma felt that Mahler was too subtle a man to have believed simply in God, but that wouldn't mean he might not attempt to disturb her, although she was aware that some of her thoughts of Mahler had caused her more than ordinary fright...
	www.commentarymagazine.com /Summaries/V78I1P32-1.htm (3244 words)

	About (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Alma Mahler was born in 1879 as the daughter of the Viennese landscape painter Emil Jakob Schindler.
		Alma grew up in a privileged environment; Gustav Klimt, Burgtheater director Max Burckhard and composer Alexander Zemlinsky (who was her composer tutor) are among the people who were in and out of her parents' house.
		The price Alma paid for being married to the man who held the most powerful position in the Viennese music scene as the director of the Royal Opera was high; she had to give up all her aspirations as a composer, as Mahler wished her to be a simple housewife and mother.
	www.theyeatfish.ch /Unterseiten/people/alma_mahler.htm (577 words)

	Alma Mahler (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Alma Mahler kept by Franz Werfel’s side and also followed him to United States when the seizing of power by the Nazis and the prohibition of his works made it impossible for Jewish intellectuals to stay (and survive).
		Alma was then 66 years old, and moved to New York and even made yet another marriage, this time with an obscure theologian, before she died at high age in 1964.
		Alma Mahler was on one hand a femme fatale, who twisted the head of some of the most influenced artists in Central Europe whom she picked out of the catalogue of fame, and on the other hand she was a free erotic authority that delivered others talents.
	www.thefab.net /nakidgrrrlz/gw27_alma_mahler.htm (901 words)

	Mahlerfest - Symphony No.6 Overview
		Alma wrote that "it was his most personal work." Alma quotes Mahler as saying that in the final movement, the hammer blows represent fate, the third blow felling a hero as an axe does a tree.
		Mahler conducted a trial rehearsal in Vienna with the Vienna Philharmonic in March or April 1906 (different dates are quoted), in preparation for its première in Essen, Germany on May 27, 1906.
		Alma further felt that the second blow foretold the diagnosis of his "fatal" heart condition shortly thereafter, and that the third presaged his dismissal from the Vienna Opera.
	www.mahlerfest.org /mfXVI/notes_overview.htm (1639 words)

	Alma Mahler - Classical Music
		Alma Schindler Mahler Gropius Werfel was born in Vienna on August 31, 1879.
		Alma composed Lieder (songs) and instrumental pieces as well as starting work on an opera, and by the time she was 22, she had already published 16 songs.
		Alma Mahler was the type of woman who had wanted to achieve fame by virtue of her own work, but she was also prepared to surround herself with famous men.
	www.bellaonline.com /ArticlesP/art1749.asp (558 words)

	Alma Mahler
		It is difficult to gauge what was lost to the world when Alma’s early ambitions as a composer (to which most of the distortions in her personality were due) were stopped in its tracks by marriage.
		Mahler was a regular correspondent and (especially in the earlier days) there is a clear regret over their separation.
		He expects Alma to write back frequently (and this sometimes means daily) and as fully as he does, and always complains when she fails to do so.
	www.arlindo-correia.com /alma_mahler.html (2302 words)

	Alma Mahler.: an original but unfulfilled composer?
		Alma approached the poems she set to music with marvellous sensitivity and understanding.
		Alma may have been influenced by others, but she managed fairly quickly to define her own style, based on sensitivity and her skilfully innovative harmonics.
		Mahler eventually recognised its value and took it upon himself to champion its publication.
	www.scena.org /lsm/sm6-10/Mahler-en.html (483 words)

	Too little Bride of the Wind, directed by Bruce Beresford, written by Marilyn Levy
		Alma Mahler’s life was bound up with many great questions: Viennese culture and politics, the specific genius and dilemmas of Mahler, the rise of modernism in art, the collapse of the Hapsburg empire, the impact of the Russian Revolution on the European intellectuals, the growth of fascism, and so on.
		Alma Mahler was undoubtedly an extraordinary individual, as were a number of her admirers and lovers.
		Mahler is one of the major artistic figures of the last decade of the nineteenth century and the first decade of the twentieth.
	www.wsws.org /articles/2001/aug2001/brid-a17_prn.shtml (1919 words)

	Gustav Mahler (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Mahler, aged 41, met Alma Marie Schindler, aged 22, on Nov. 7 1901, at a dinner party in the Zurkerkandl's house.
		Near the end of Mahler's life, by 1910, they had deep marital problems, a symptom of which was Mahler's impotence and Alma's opening herself to the advances of a lover, the 27 year old architect Walter Gropius, with whom she was to re-marry in 1915.
		Mahler's attitude became more loving and considerate after a personal "walk" with Freud where he explained to Mahler Alma's projection of her idealized father figure upon him (he rejected Freud's diagnosis of a mother fixation in him, however).
	www.expreso.co.cr /centaurs/posts/bio/mahler.html (1438 words)

	brideofthewind
		Mahler's reputation is as a great musician and as a lady's man, but he's unsure of himself in her bedroom.
		Alma is saddled with an unfulfilling marriage and feels creatively stifled, as Mahler will not let her advance her own career.
		Mahler reminds her of her father, and he gives her status--which becomes her reasons to say she is committed to keeping this marriage intact.
	www.sover.net /~ozus/brideofthewind.htm (776 words)

	Alma Mahler Werfel – FemBio: notable women
		Alma Schindler began composition studies with Alexander von Zemlinsky in 1897, composing Lieder and instrumental pieces as well as starting work on an opera.
		By the time Mahler, after a crisis in their marriage, suddenly took an interest in her composition (he had five of her Lieder printed), she had long given up.
		She was happy at the birth of her daughter Manon - she had already had a daughter with Mahler, a second had died as a toddler, and Manon was to die too, at 18 - but gave up the security of that marriage for the young poet Franz Werfel.
	www.fembio.org /women/alma-mahler.shtml (376 words)

	Alma Mahler: The Songs Klara Csordas, mezzo soprano, Richard Black, piano Wigmore Hall, 23 March 2002 (MA) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Alma Mahler is best known these days for the bejewelled profligacy of her marriages and relationships: after Gustav, who stole her from the arms of Zemlinsky, she bestowed her considerable charms on Klimt, Kokoschka, Gropius and Werfel.
		The upshot of the concert was to establish Alma as – if not a neglected genius, and perhaps not even a figure of pronounced individuality – at the very least a capable composer, whose psychological insights into her texts reveals a perceptive intelligence at work, a Viennese mirror of her heady times.
		As a husband Mahler had put Alma in her place; now he did it again as a composer, with the Rückert-Lieder interpolated to open the second half of the concert.
	www.musicweb-international.com /SandH/2002/Apr02/Mahler_songs.htm (709 words)

	washingtonpost.com: Entertainment Guide
		Alma (Sarah Wynter) is stunningly handsome and a swift talker.
		Mahler, played with gentle self-absorption by Jonathan Pryce, adored her; he also adored music, and no doubt he got the balance wrong on occasion.
		Alma eventually dropped Zemlinsky for Mahler, leaving the former stunned, confused and deeply hurt, which is pretty much the same effect that her extramarital infatuation for the young Gropius had on the latter.
	www.washingtonpost.com /wp-srv/entertainment/movies/reviews/brideofthewindkennicott.htm (937 words)

	Penn Special Collections - Music/Mahler-Werfel
		A central figure in Viennese cultural life at the turn of the last century, Alma Mahler (-Gropius-Werfel,) was the daughter of the Viennese landscape painter Emil Schindler and served as muse for many artists, including Oskar Kokoschka and Gustav Klimt.
		Alma Schindler's Tagebücher cover a four-year period, from January 1898 through January 1902, ending shortly before her marriage to Gustav Mahler in March of that year.
		Alma Mahler Werfel was one of many of Schönberg's friends and colleagues who campaigned for an increase in the royalty fees the composer received for performances of his works.
	www.library.upenn.edu /exhibits/rbm/music/alma.html (474 words)

	Movies Other\| (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Alma Maria Schindler had the kind of extraordinary life that should be perfect for a film.
		The truth is less uplifting: Alma appears to have written just one composition after Mahler’s death, and though she certainly had talent, the 16 songs she’s left have made it onto just a handful of recordings, as opposed to the thousands of Mahler discs.
		The real Alma Schindler wasn’t a great composer, but she was the bride of inspiration, an intelligent, ineffable, one-of-a-kind woman who deserves a better movie.
	www.bostonphoenix.com /boston/movies/reviews/documents/01683469.htm (435 words)

	Historical Settings (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Mahler, who almost never attended such dinner parties, "happened" to be there, was intrigued by this lively, intelligent and attractive young girl, and was induced to "join the fun." As we know, the rest is history.
		Alma's Diaries from 1898-1902 also allude to earlier encounters, e.g., while bike riding in the Salzkammergut, and to Alma's admiration for Mahler as the eminent conductor of the Court Opera, but not an admirer of his music.
		That Mahler hit upon such a clever scheme is an example of his innate understanding of human nature, though as a indomitable perfectionist and idealist, he no doubt was his own worst enemy in dealing with his superiors, his musicians, and the press.
	www.mahlerfest.org /2001/essay.htm (2344 words)

	German Exiles: Feuchtwanger Memorial Library (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The Czech-born, Austrian-Jewish writer Franz Werfel married Alma Mahler (widow of composer Gustav Mahler) in 1929.
		Alma Mahler-Werfel is well known for her close association with many of Europe's greatest artists and intellectuals.
		In 1916 their daugther, Manon, was born; the couple was divorced after World War I. During her lifetime Alma Mahler became friends with numerous celebrated artists, including the painter Gustav Klimt (who made several portraits of her), composer Arnold Schoenberg, the writer Gerhart Hauptmann, and the singer Enrico Caruso.
	www.usc.edu /isd/archives/arc/libraries/feuchtwanger/exiles/werfel.html (405 words)

	Choose your own 'Alma'-venture - Lifestyle
		Both the woman, Alma Mahler-Werfel, and the mammoth, complex play about her life, "Alma," are confounding puzzles, loaded with contradictions but undeniably fascinating.
		She surrendered her own musical aspirations to be Mahler's wife and mother to his children - and, according to the play, exacted her revenge via fiery infidelities - but at last, tenderly nursed him on his deathbed.
		There's much more that could be said about "Alma": that it's a logistical marvel; an interesting lesson in perspective; an over-intellectualized bore; an impassioned labor of love; a muddled, exploitive mess; a philosophical examination of the sacrament - and sacrifice - of marriage with one of the longest curtain calls in history...
	www.dailytrojan.com /news/2004/10/05/Lifestyle/Choose.Your.Own.almaVenture-741898.shtml (763 words)

	Borders - Feature - A Difficult Muse: Novelist Max Phillips on Alma Mahler-Werfel
		MP: Alma kept a diary throughout her life, from which she quotes in her various memoirs, but all but the very earliest volumes are missing, and most Alma scholars figure she burned them before she died.
		But each time I wanted Alma to go one way and her actual life went another, that was another sign to me that I hadn't gone deep enough in my study of her.
		Alma was very, very changeable, and a raging alcoholic, neither of which are good for sustained creative output, and she could never decide whether her songs were her art, or whether her life was.
	www.bordersstores.com /features/feature.jsp?file=phillipsmax (1057 words)

	mahler
		Mahler tells his wife that the dream -- which she did not look kindly upon, thinking it was just another one of the ways he always uses to put her in place -- is actually a homage to her.
		He tells her: "She is the living creature struggling to be born." His bust on the rock he says, signifies that "I was the rock and the rock was me." The visionary dream is evocative of the music he created for the 1st movement of the third sympathy.
		We learn from a reporter on the train that Mahler might have been forced to leave The Vienna State Opera because of anti-Semitism, though Mahler claims he left for a change of environment and is returning for the same reason.
	www.sover.net /~ozus/mahler.htm (1010 words)

	Mahler, Alma (1879-1964)
		But after Alma's mother had discovered that Klimt had actually kissed her the affair was put to an end.
		Alma now started an affair with the painter Kokoschka, who portrayed her at his painting "Die Windsbraut" ("The Bride of the Wind") in 1914.
		The grave of Alma Mahler at the Grinzinger Friedhof, Vienna.
	www.xs4all.nl /~androom/biography/p023553.htm (269 words)

	Directory - Arts: Music: Composition: Composers: M: Mahler, Alma Schindler
		Alma Mahler Werfel · cached · Her life is the focus of the play Alma a Venezia, set in multiple rooms, and allowing the audience to participate.
		Alma Mahler Werfel · iweb · cached · Entry from Luise F. Pusch's FemBio database traces her life from a feminist perspective.
		Alma Mahler · Poem by Tom Lehrer takes a humorous look at her three marriages and unknown number of affairs.
	www.incywincy.com /default?p=902922 (199 words)

	Alma - Joshua Sobol (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Alma Mahler not only (sequentially) married the composer, Gustav Mahler, Bauhaus founder Walter Gropius and novelist and poet Franz Werfel, but she was a lover or romantically connected to painters Gustav Klimt and Oskar Kokoschka, composer Alexander Zemlinsky and theater director Max Burchard.
		In Europe Alma was staged in historic venues such as the 17th century Palazzo Zenobio in Venice and a 17th century monastery in Lisbon.
		Alma invites the audience to “act as a camera” and follow different characters to different locations, from different angles, moving around the magnificent building from basement, to auditorium, to balcony, and back stage.
	www.culturevulture.net /Theater7/Alma.htm (693 words)

	ALMA MAHLER AND ZEMLINSKY
		Alma returned from her summer vacation on 25 September, but ten days passed before Zemlinsky found time to visit her.
		Alma's first impression of him was of sheer nervous energy, of a man 'made of nothing but oxygen'.
		Mahler sent her his «Wunderborn songs» and she was aghast; she played through act I of «The Triumph of Time» and wrote: 'It's so close to my heart'.
	www.rodoni.ch /zemlinski/zemlinsky/alma2.html (1230 words)

	Zemlinsky und Alma Mahler-Werfel (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		After Alma had shown him some of her songs, he regularly frequented the house of Alma’s stepfather Carl Moll as her teacher of composition.
		Alma admired Zemlinsky’s music and intellect and fell for his great erotic charisma but could never come to terms with his appearance and his “lowly” background, especially not in public, which was so important for her and towards her parents who from the beginning did not accept Zemlinsky.
		For his part Zemlinsky adored Alma but felt nauseated by the vanity of the salon and “by the cliques of sclerotic souls” (Zemlinsky) of the people she associated with.
	www.zemlinsky.at /page_e/cont_bez/muse_e.html (414 words)

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