Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by “Alma,” premiering this week at the Vienna Volksoper, views its often-vilified protagonist through a feminist lens: as a thwarted composer and mother.

“Before we speak again you must renounce everything superficial, all vanity and outward show concerning your individuality and your own work …” That was the ultimatum the great composer Gustav Mahler ...

Gustav Mahler died in 1911 of bacterial endocarditis, an inflammation of the valves of an already weakened heart. But perhaps his heart was also broken in the more poetic sense. A year before, the ...

Not unlike his grand and idiosyncratic musical oeuvre, Gustav Mahler's marriage to Alma Mahler straddled the border between the Romantic 19th and the Modern 20th centuries. Even as they shared a ...

The Spokane Symphony will open their new season celebrating 80 years by giving the audience a window into a classical love triangle for the ages, as well as the music of a composer that was silenced.

In 1918, the Austrian painter Oskar Kokoschka commissioned a doll-maker in Munich to create a life-size doll of his former lover Alma Mahler, who had thrown him over four years earlier. Dissatisfied ...

German philosopher and social critic Teodor Adorno called her a “monster.” Composer Richard Strauss saw in her “the inferiority complexes of a dissolute female.” A Viennese acquaintance, Gina Kaus, ...