Mahler-Werfel papers, ca. 1880-2004 (bulk 1898-1975).
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Mahler, Gustav, 1860-1911
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Gustav Mahler was a Romantic composer. Mahler displayed his musical gifts at an early age. For much of his life composing was necessarily a part-time activity while he earned his living as a conductor. Aside from early works such as a movement from a piano quartet composed when he was a student in Vienna, Mahler's works are generally designed for large orchestral forces, symphonic choruses and operatic soloists. ...
Klarmann, Adolf D. (Adolf Donald), 1904-1975
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Agnes Ida Gebauer was a nurse employed by Alma Mahler; Gebauer writes to Klarmann on Alma's behalf. Isolde Klarmann was the wife of Adolf Klarmann; Ali Rosé was the wife of Wolfgang Rosé, a nephew of Alma Mahler (Wolfgang was the son of Gustav Mahler's sister Emma and Eduard Rosé, a cellist and the brother of Arnold Rosé). Harry Zohn was a professor of German and the editor of a German reader published by Henry Holt & Co; he corresponded with Alma Mahler and Adolf Klarmann about the incl...
Mahler, Alma
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Alma Mahler, daughter of painter Emil Jakob Schindler and singer Anna Bergen, grew up in Vienna, studied music, and married composer Gustav Mahler. After his death in 1911, she married architect Walter Gropius in 1915. She and writer Franz Werfel fled Nazi Germany in 1937 for France and settled in California in 1940. From the description of Alma Mahler's birthday book, 1949. (Pennsylvania State University Libraries). WorldCat record id: 48912134 Born Alma Maria Schindler, Al...
Werfel, Franz, 1890-1945
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Franz Werfel was born Sept. 10, 1890 in Prague, Bohemia; one of the founders of the expressionist movement in German literature, Werfel began writing poetry when still a boy and published his first play when 20; published first book of verse in 1911; plays Goat song (1922) and Juarez and Maximilian (1925) were successfully produced in Europe and NY; published novel, Verdi, in 1924; married Alma Mahler, composer Gustav Mahler's widow, in 1929; in 1940 fled Nazis to US; wrote one of his most popul...
