She had to stop writing music, because the man was the artist in that marriage


En climbing bear that crawled purposefully from one famous artist to another? Or a composer in her own right, whose talent was suppressed by the man by whose surname she is known today?

Alma Mahler was both. The woman from Vienna, who was born Schindler, and who changed her surname several times, was with the visual artist Gustav Klimt and one of the most influential and well-known composers of the time, Alexander von Zemlinsky. Later, relationships with and marriages followed with men such as the expressionist painter Otto Kokoschka, the architect Walter Gropius and the writer Franz Werfel.


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