Alma Mahler-Werfel (born Alma Margaretha Maria Schindler; 31 August 1879 – 11 December 1964) 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]
She married composer Gustav Mahler, who later began to support her in composing and assisted in preparing some of her works for publication, but he died in 1911. In 1915, Alma married Walter Gropius, and they had a daughter, Manon Gropius. Throughout her marriage to Gropius, Alma engaged in an affair with Franz Werfel. Following her separation from Gropius, Alma and Werfel eventually married.
In 1938, after Nazi Germany annexed Austria, Werfel and Alma fled, as it was unsafe for the Jewish Werfel. Eventually the couple settled in Los Angeles. In later years, her salon became part of the artistic scene, first in Vienna, then in Los Angeles and New York.
^Susanne Rode-Breymann: Die Komponistin Alma Mahler-Werfel (Hannoversche Hefte zur Theatergeschichte, Doppelheft 10, 158 Seiten), Niedersächsisches Staatstheater, Hannover 1999, ISBN 3-931266-06-0.
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often stormy affair with AlmaMahler. It began in 1912, five years after the death of her four-year-old daughter Maria Mahler and two years before her...
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Levy. Loosely based on the life of AlmaMahler, Bride of the Wind recounts Alma's marriage to the composer Gustav Mahler and her romantic liaisons. The title...
and Contraltos. Leonard wrongly refers to AlmaMahler as "the composer's daughter". Ferrier met Anna Mahler, the composer's daughter, at a reception after...
Austrian landscape painter. His eldest daughter was the author and composer AlmaMahler. He was born to a family of cotton spinning-mill operators that had been...
flat as a bachelor. In 1915, Gropius married AlmaMahler (1879–1964), widow of Gustav Mahler. Walter and Alma's daughter, named Manon after Walter's mother...
publication in 2004 of letters written by Gustav Mahler to Alma, during the period when she was Mahler's wife. Alma had published many of these letters in 1940...
on the stage". Hale appeared as AlmaMahler in Ken Russell's Mahler (1974), opposite Robert Powell as Gustav Mahler. Her performance was called "excellent"...
novel), 1922 Alma (Le Clézio novel), 2017 Alma (play), a 1996 drama by Joshua Sobol about AlmaMahler-Werfel Alma (Carminho album), 2012 Alma (Nicki Nicole...
of the Wind, his ambitious 2001 biopic of AlmaMahler, the wife of composer Gustav Mahler (and, after Mahler's death, of architect Walter Gropius and subsequently...
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