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THIS IS THE DIARY JUNCTION - DATA AND LINKS FOR OVER 500 HISTORICAL AND LITERARY DIARISTS PLEASE TAKE A MOMENT ALSO TO LOOK AT KIP FENN, A MAJOR NOVEL ABOUT THE 21st CENTURY - freely available on this site Mahler-Werfel, Alma ___ 1879-1964 ___ Austrian ___ musician BIOGRAPHICAL SUMMARY Alma was born in Vienna into a privileged and cultured family. The painter Gustav Klimt and the composer Alexander Zemlinsky were regular visitors. Zemlinsky, in fact, taught Alma, and became her first lover. In 1902 she married Gustav Mahler, then the director of the Royal Opera. She had two daughters by him, one of whom died young. By 1910, though, she had fallen into the arms of a young German architect Walter Gropius - which led Mahler to seek advice from Sigmund Freud. Shortly thereafter Mahler died, and Alma married Gropius. They had a daughter, who died of polio when still a teenager. Alma, though, was not faithful to Gropius either, since she had a two year affair with the young painter Oskar Kokoschka. She then began a relationship with the Jewish poet Franz Werfel, and gave birth to another child, but the boy died before his first birthday. At the age of 50, Alma married Werfel. In the 1930s, the couple fled Germany, first to France, and then to the US, where they lived in Hollywood. After Werfel's death, Alma went to New York. One biography link DIARY DATES, CONTENT DESCRIPTORS 1898-1902 ___ literary society people art music love/sex creativity WEB TEXT LINKS some extracts about Zemlinksy about the diary ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT LINKS The Médiathèque Musicale Mahler Penn Library SOME PUBLISHED TITLES Diaries 1898-1902 May 2005 THIS IS THE DIARY JUNCTION - DATA AND LINKS FOR OVER 500 HISTORICAL AND LITERARY DIARISTS Please email if you have any corrections, additions or comments.

IMPORTANT NOTES AND CAUTIONS: 1) The first line of basic information may be incomplete in several ways: some historical figures have different names (titles, pen-names); their birth and death dates may be unknown or uncertain (g - guess, c - circa); similarly, their occupations may be unknown, or they may have had other jobs; and, for early diarists, I've used 'British' a bit too freely. 2) The biographical summary may not be accurate. It was compiled quickly from various sources, mostly on the internet, and the facts were not checked anywhere near as rigorously as they would have been if they'd been intended for publication in a printed form. 3) The journal dates and descriptors (which are in no particular order) must be treated with caution: since I have not examined the diaries myself, the descriptors are only guesses based on bibliographies, anthologies and internet biographies. 4) For the biography and etext links, I have ignored any sites with charges, and I have avoided, wherever possible, those with pop-ups or too much advertising. I have limited myself to providing three etext links where there is some variety between them. 5) For the original manuscript links, I have limited myself to providing a maximum of two (although, for a few diarists, their original diaries are held in more than two places). 6) I have provided the titles - chosen randomly - for up to three printed editions of the diaries.

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