Passionate Spirit - The Life of Alma Mahler

The life of an extraordinary artist and intellect: the composer, author and socialite Alma Mahler, whose life spanned one of the most captivating and dramatic periods in history Alma Mahler was once at the epicentre of Vienna's artistic and intellectual life. A talented composer in her own right, she was open, generous, remarkably creative, curious, challenging and zealous in her pursuit of love. Artists, architects, musicians and writers jostled to join her coterie. Gustav Klimt was her first kiss; Gustav Mahler her first husband. But her life was haunted by tragedy, and the support and inspiration that Alma gave to the men she loved came at the heavy price of her own artistic fulfilment.Drawing extensively on previously unpublished diaries and letters, Cate Haste illuminates the passionate spirit of one of history's most complex and charismatic muses, a modern woman with an elemental vitality that could scarcely be contained by her century - who will live forever in the art she created and inspired.>

Product details

• Authors: Cate Haste, Haste Cate
• Publisher: Bloomsbury
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.06.2020
• EAN: 9781408878361
• ISBN: 978-1-4088-7836-1
• No. of pages: 512
• Dimensions: 128 mm x 196 mm x 36 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Humanities, art, music > Art > Art history; Individual composers & musicians, specific bands & groups, MUSIC / History & Criticism, 20th Century, ART / History / Modern (late 19th Century to 1945), MUSIC / Genres & Styles / Classical, General & world history, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, History of Art, History of art & design styles: from c 1900 -, Musicians, singers, bands and groups, Composers and songwriters, Biography: arts and entertainment, 20th Century & Contemporary Classical Music, Art music, orchestral and formal music, Walter Gropius; Fiona MacCarthy; Bauhaus