Clearly Alma Schindler Mahler Gropius Werfel inspired passionate ... It’s not an especially flattering portrait but it rings true. Two earlier biographers, Susan Keegan and the late Chicago ...

But Bruce Beresford’s lavish and luscious portrait of Alma Mahler fails to plumb ... until at last liberated. Gustave Mahler, played with reserve and self-importance by Jonathan Pryce, used ...

A portrait from the same period casts Mahler-Werfel in a Mona Lisa pose, though with the famous smile distorted into something like a smirk or a grimace. Among other Alma-themed images ...

is a heady brew that at its best succeeds in making the reader empathize with the often self-absorbed Mahler and particularly his wife, Alma, a talented composer in her own right. “I knew I could do ...

Alma’s long twilight, and her continuing devoted work as Mahler’s representative on earth, tends to obscure her own reputation as a composer. She was perhaps unusually self-deprecating ...

Passionate Spirit: The Life of Alma Mahler. By Cate Haste.Bloomsbury ... these works have been overshadowed by Gustav’s genius. This portrait of Alma is compelling; the feminist gloss, less ...