Rachel:
One correction: although Mahler's children did die (shortly after the
"Kindertotenlieder" was composed- it was prophetic!), his wife, Alma
Mahler, survived him to consort with the expressionist painter Oskar
Kokoschka, later marrying the architect Walter Gropius, then finally
wedding Franz Werfel, the author of "The Song of Bernadette." Alma was
also a sculptor and her bust of Arnold Schoenberg (also a friend from
Vienna) is (or was) in the lobby of Schoenberg Hall at UCLA. She wrote
an autobiography that is absolutely fascinating. What a woman!
Richard in Seattle
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
...Everything after Mahler 5 was done in its particular 'style' because of the
tragic demise of Mahler's wife and children...
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