Alma Mahler's birthday book, 1949.

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Alma Mahler's birthday book, 1949.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/48912134

On the occasion of her seventieth birthday Alma Mahler-Werfel received a "birthday book" bound volume of seventy-seven letters from significant representatives of European and American cultural and intellectual life. Among the well-wishers are Benjamin Britten, Walter Gropius, Sinclair Lewis, Thomas Mann, Eugene Ormandy, Upton Sinclair, Walter Slezak, Leopold Stokowski, and Igor Stravinsky.

1 volume (77 letters) : red calf ; 31 cm.

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Pennsylvania State University Libraries

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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...