Alma Mahler-Werfel

Alma Mahler-Werfel (1879–1964) was an Austrian composer whose songs for voice and piano capture the intimacy and intensity of fin-de-siècle Vienna. Though her creative path was often overshadowed—most notably by her marriage to Gustav Mahler—she left behind seventeen surviving Lieder of striking lyricism and harmonic depth. Published between 1910 and 1924, these songs set texts by poets such as Rilke and Dehmel, and reveal a sensibility poised between late Romanticism and early modernism. Today, Alma’s music is performed and recorded widely, restoring her voice to the artistic circle in which she lived and worked.