Released album “BBC Music, Volume 34, Number 10: Songs From the Proms”.
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Alma Mahler
Alma Mahler-Werfel was an Austrian composer, author, editor, and socialite. Musically active from her early years, she became a fixture of Vienna's fin de siècle cultural scene, and struck up friendships and relationships with a number of notable artists and composers.
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culture · Austrian composer (1879–1964) · composer · painter · biographer · model · writer · art collector · artist · musician · also Alma Mahler, Alma Maria Mahler Gropius Werfel, Alma Maria Mahler, Alma Maria Groupius, Alma Maria Gropius, Alma Mahler-Werfel
Born 31 August 1879 · Died 11 December 1964 · Q156898
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2026· 1 entry
2023· 1 entry
Released album “Alma - Meine Seele: Complete Songs of Alma Mahler”.
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2022· 1 entry
Artnet news: Leonard Bernstein kisses the hand of Alma Mahler after rehearsing Gustav Mahler second (Resurrection) symphony at Carnegie Hall, NYC
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2019· 1 entry
Sydney Morning Herald: Alma Mahler: a story of tragedy, husbands and music
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2017· 1 entry
Released album “Alma Mahler: Lieder und Gesänge / Patrizia Montanaro: Canto di Penelope”.
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2015· 1 entry
London Review of Books: Alma Mahler: Her music and men
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2014· 1 entry
Released album “Lieder”.
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2010· 1 entry
The German filmmaker Percy Adlon and his son Felix Adlon released their film Mahler auf der Couch (Mahler on the Couch), which relates Gustav Mahler's tormented relationship with his wife, Alma, and his meeting with Sigm
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2008· 1 entry
Released album “Chansons grises”.
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2003· 1 entry
Released album “Complete Songs”.
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1999· 1 entry
Mahler-Werfel's granddaughter requested that five artworks seized under the Nazis be restored to the family
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1998· 1 entry
Extracts from Alma's diaries were published, covering the years from 1898 to 1902, until the time she married Mahler
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1997· 3 entries
Released album “Zemlinsky: A Florentine Tragedy / Alma Mahler: Lieder”.
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Released album “Alma Mahler-Werfel: Complete Songs / Alexander Zemlinsky: Songs, op. 7”.
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“My works are 12-tone compositions, not 12-tone compositions Stuckenschmidt, Hans Heinz. 1977, in Schoenberg: His Life, World and Work; translated from the German by Humphrey Searle. p. 349. I was never revolutionary. The only revolutionary in our time was Strauss!”
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1996· 1 entry
Israeli writer Joshua Sobol and Austrian director Paulus Manker created the polydrama Alma
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1987· 1 entry
Released album “Sämtliche Lieder”.
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1964· 1 entry
Died 1964-12-11.
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1951· 1 entry
Alma Mahler-Werfel moved to New York, where she had purchased four small condominiums in a house on the Upper East Side (120 East 73rd Street)
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1946· 1 entry
Mahler-Werfel became a US citizen
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1940· 1 entry
And keeping the others until, fearing retribution from the Red Army, he committed suicide
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1938· 2 entries
Following the Anschluss, Alma and Werfel, who was Jewish, were forced to flee Austria for France; they maintained a household in Sanary-sur-Mer on the French Riviera from the summer of 1938 until the spring of 1940
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After Nazi Germany annexed Austria, Werfel and Alma fled, as it was unsafe for the Jewish Werfel
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1923· 1 entry
“Those Who Complain about the Decline”
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1915· 1 entry
Alma married Walter Gropius, and they had a daughter, Manon Gropius
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1910· 1 entry
By Gustav's own publisher, Universal Edition)
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1902· 1 entry
When she married composer Gustav Mahler, who died in 1911
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1899· 1 entry
Had a daughter together named Maria
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1895· 1 entry
Anna Schindler, Alma's mother, married Carl Moll, Emil Schindler's student
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1892· 1 entry
The family also traveled to the North Sea island of Sylt, where Emil Schindler died
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1886· 1 entry
Crown Prince Rudolf found interest in Emil Jakob Schindler's paintings and commissioned Schindler to take a trip with his family to the Adriatic coast to produce landscape paintings
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1879· 1 entry
Born 1879-08-31.
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