Malevolent Muse : The Life of Alma Mahler /

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Of all the colorful figures on the twentieth-century European cultural scene, hardly anyone has provoked more-polarized reactions than Alma Schindler Mahler Gropius Werfel (1879-1964). Mistress to a long succession of brilliant men, she married three of the best known: the composer Gustav Mahler, th...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Hilmes, Oliver (Author)
Other Authors: Arthur, Donald (Translator)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Alemán
Published: Boston : Northeastern University Press, [2015]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Werfel, Franz, > 1890-1945.
Mahler, Gustav, > 1860-1911.
Mahler, Alma, > 1879-1964.
Gropius, Walter, > 1883-1969.
Wives.
Arts.
MUSIC > Reference.
MUSIC > Genres & Styles > Classical.
Femmes mariees > Biographies.
Arts > Autriche > 20e siecle > Histoire.
Wives > Biography.
Arts > Austria > History > 20th century.
Austria > Vienna.
Austria.
Vienna (Austria) > Biography.
Biographies.
History.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Prologue
  • Childhood and youth (1879-1901)
  • Mahler (1901-1911)
  • Excesses (1911-1915)
  • Marriage at a distance (1915-1917)
  • Love-hate (1917-1930)
  • Radicalization (1931-1938)
  • The involuntary escape (1938-1940)
  • In safety--and unhappy (1940-1945)
  • Last refrain (1945-1964)
  • Epilogue.

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