Composer · b. 1879 - d. 1964
Alma Mahler
Biography
Alma Mahler (1879-1964), born Alma Schindler in Vienna, was an Austrian composer and writer. She studied with Josef Labor and Alexander Zemlinsky and developed a musical voice rooted in the richly chromatic language of the late Romantic Lied. Her surviving songs set German poetry with an acute sense of mood, harmonic colour and vocal expression. Their publication and modern performance have renewed attention to her work as a composer.