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 | | There, the 20-year old Alma, who claimed that she was a "reluctant" guest that evening, was the 'life of the party," making raucous conversation with Gustav Klimt (one of Alma's "conquests") and Max Burckhard (Director of the Burgtheater and another of Alma's admirers). |
 | | 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. |
 | | In spite of being an incurable flirt, and a "collector of men," Alma remained true to Gustav until the summer of 1910 and her torrid affair with Walter Gropius (which she whitewashed in her memoirs), but that is another story told in the booklet of the MahlerFest CD recording of the Tenth Symphony. |
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