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23%OFFAntony Beaumont - Alma Mahler-Werfel - 9780571197255 - V9780571197255
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Alma Mahler-Werfel

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Description for Alma Mahler-Werfel Paperback. Opening with Mahler-Werfel's first, heady affair with Klimt, these diaries end shortly before her marriage to Mahler. They portray the vitality of everyday life, descriptions of significant artistic events, and insights into the behavioural patterns and linguistic conventions of the Vienna of 1900. Translator(s): Beaumont, Antony. Num Pages: 528 pages, 8pp b&w halftones, b&w line illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DFA; 3JH; 3JJ; AVH; BGFA; HBJD; HBLL; HBTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 146 x 219 x 40. Weight in Grams: 642.
Born in 1879 in Vienna, Alma Mahler-Werfel was the daughter of the popular landscape painter, Emil J. Schindler. Her stepfather, Carl Moll, was instrumental in forming the Secession movement and she became the pupil, friend and lover of many famous men, including Alexander Zemlinsky, Gustav Klimt and Max Burckhard. In 1902 she married Gustav Mahler. After his death she married Walter Gropius, had a liaison with Oskar Kokoschka, and later married Franz Werfel. As a young girl she began writing a diary. This selection from four years of that diary gives a breathtaking (and breathless) account of cultural life in ... Read more

Product Details

Publisher
Faber & Faber United Kingdom
Number of pages
514
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Condition
New
Weight
642g
Number of Pages
528
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780571197255
SKU
V9780571197255
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 4 to 8 working days
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99-2

About Antony Beaumont
Antony Beaumont was born in London and studied at King's College, Cambridge. He now lives in Germany where he is active as a conductor, lecturer, and freelance musicologist. In 1992, Beaumont was commissioned by the Hamburg State Opera to complete the orchestration of Zemlinsky's last opera, Der König Kandaules. Premièred in 1996, the work has since been staged by several ... Read more

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