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Passionate spirit : the life of Alma Mahler

Title
Passionate spirit : the life of Alma Mahler / Cate Haste.
Author
Haste, Cate, 1945-2021
Publication
  • London : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2019.
  • ©2019

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Description
xv, 469 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : black and white illustrations, portraits; 25 cm
Summary
A new biography of Alma Mahler. Drawing on Alma's vivid, sensual, and overlooked diaries, biographer Cate Haste recounts the untold and far more sympathetic story of this ambitious and talented woman. Though she dreamed of being the first woman to compose a famous opera, Alma was stifled by traditional social values. Eventually, she put her own dreams aside and wielded power and influence the only way she could, by supporting the art of more famous men. She worked alongside them and gained credit as their muse, comanding their love and demanding their respect. Passionate Spirit restores vibrant humanity to a woman time turned into a caricature, providing an important correction to a history where systemic sexism has long erased women of talent. -- Amazon.
Subject
  • Mahler, Alma, 1879-1964
  • Women composers > Austria > Biography
  • Diarists > Austria > Biography
  • Wives > Biography
  • Arts, Austrian > 20th century
  • Vienna (Austria) > Biography
  • Europe > Intellectual life > 20th century
  • Austria
Genre/Form
  • Biography.
  • Biographies.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Vienna childhood -- Awakening 1898-1899 -- Love and music 1889-1901 -- Divine longing 1901-1902 -- A nobler calling 1902-1907 -- Grief and renewal 1907-1910 -- 'To live for you, to die for you' 1910-1911 -- Tempest 1911-1914 -- War and marriage 1914-1917 -- Intertwined souls 1917-1920 -- Conflict 1921-1931 -- Gathering storms 1931-1936 -- Flight 1936-1941 -- Exile 1941-1946 -- La grande veuve 1946-1964.
Call Number
JFE 19-9071
ISBN
  • 1408878321
  • 9781408878323
OCLC
1078421650
Author
Haste, Cate, 1945-2021, author.
Title
Passionate spirit : the life of Alma Mahler / Cate Haste.
Publisher
London : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2019.
Copyright Date
©2019
Type of Content
text
still image
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Research Call Number
JFE 19-9071
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