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Alma Mahler-Werfel: Diaries 1898-1902 (Paperback, Main)
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Alma Mahler-Werfel: Diaries 1898-1902 (Paperback, Main)
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Loot Price R546
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Desolate at the end of a romance with Gustav Klimt, Alma
Mahler-Werfel falls briefly in love with her piano teacher,
Zemlinsky: 'so immeasurably great!' she writes dramatically. Hers
was a life filled with such drama for soon she was attracted to
Gustav Mahler. Mahler-Werfel was a wildly dramatic character and a
charismatic beauty. Her diaries, scribbled in old exercise books,
record her development from adolescence to womanhood, up to her
marriage to Mahler. They provide a vivid picture of Vienna in the
1900s, with accounts of the Secession exhibitions, performances of
Mahler and Bruckner symphonies, the social scene and fashions.
(Kirkus UK)
The original manuscript of these diaries, which present an
eye-witness record of historical events in the worlds of art and
music at the turn of the century, lay unread in the library of an
American university until Antony Beaumont read it in search of the
truth about Mahler-Werfel and Zemlinsky. But he found more: an
account, in intimate detail, of the four years during which
Mahler-Werfel grew from adolescence into womanhood. Opening with
her first, heady affair with Klimt, the diaries break off 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.
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