GUSTAV Klimt called him a genius. And Alma Mahler — Gustave Mahler’s widow, the Madonna of her time — also had high hopes for her young lover, Oskar Kokoschka. You’ll see why at the Neue ...

“Alma” unfurls in reverse chronology, with acts focusing on Mahler-Werfel’s lost ... Her first kiss was with the painter Gustav Klimt and she was close with Berta Zuckerkandl-Szeps, a ...

Alma Mahler had an appalling yet unique and remarkable ... Aged seventeen, she met the famous painter, Gustav Klimt, who was twice her age. The attraction was immediate and mutual, yet it did ...

(Her first kiss was with Gustav Klimt.) There are also signs ... that has been dramatized in several Gustav-and-Alma movies. At an Austrian spa, Mahler-Werfel embarked on an affair with Gropius ...

The last of the great middle European giants of the symphony was Gustav Mahler ... Like many another Mahler partisan, Alma Mahler admitted that she wasn’t always able to understand Mahler ...

But Valcuha daringly stretched the music at important transitions, and the soaring “Alma” theme ... (with whom Mahler had an impromptu session) to the painter Gustav Klimt and the philosopher ...

founder of the Mahler Foundation and one of the grandchildren of Gustav and Alma Mahler, to deliver an opening address to the audience. Alluding to Zander’s artistic ethos of exploring the ...