Mahler and Alma didn't meet happily at that dinner. Alma strongly pointed out the shortcomings of Mahler's works and walked away. Mahler looked at the back of the impudent little girl in amazement, trying to calm her heart, which was beating violently with joy, and was fatally attracted by something on her.
The next day, Mahler sent tickets to the theater to Alma's family. Mahler is madly in love with this woman 19 years younger than himself. In just a few months, he wrote nearly 100 love letters for Alma, and dedicated "Ich atmet' einen linden Duft" from five poems by Lukte to Alma. (Luckett was a German poet in the19th century. )
"I am breathing the fragrant aroma. In the room, there is a bodhi, a gift, from an intimate palm, so lovely, so lovely, so fragrant, and the twigs of Bodhi. You break it down gently, and I breathe gently, breathing the fragrance of bodhi, dear, so fragrant. " The taciturn Mahler chose his best melody to tell his heart: "When you feel the arrival of your lover, there is a silent feeling in your heart. There is no need to express your feelings in any language between the two souls."
More than four months later, despite some suspicious eyes around. Many friends, such as Bruno Walter, Mahler's student conductor, expressed concern: Mahler is 465,438+0 years old, and Alma is 22 years old, and she is still so beautiful. In the past, she used to lead a colorful life, but Mahler liked to live alone ... Encouraged by love, Mahler married Alma. On the surface, the initial married life was happy. In that year 1 1 month, Alma gave birth to her eldest daughter Maria Anna Mahler. Two years later, the second daughter Anna Maria Mahler was born (this seems to be a lovely word game). In music creation, five years after marriage, Mahler wrote the fifth, sixth, seventh and eighth symphonies, and Alma played the role of copying music for the musician's husband.
However, the rift between two people has actually been sneaking around like a fire. Before the wedding, Mahler wrote a long letter to Alma, asking her to be his wife and give up composing. Mahler said in the letter: "You must give up everything and give yourself unconditionally to me ... You want nothing but my love." Despite the pain and hesitation, Alma agreed with tears in her eyes. At this time, she may still regard marriage as a fairy tale that "the prince and princess live happily ever after".
Due to the age gap between the two sides, many problems are inevitably exposed. Alma is used to the glitz of social places. Suspicious Mahler is full of distrust of the beautiful young wife. Mahler restricted his wife from going out and forbidding her to receive visitors in private. Behind the strong possessiveness is the love for his wife and the fear of losing his wife. Alma was Mahler's only spiritual pillar and power source at this time.
In order to show his debt to his wife, Mahler took the beautiful fourth movement in the Fifth Symphony as a "declaration of love" dedicated to Alma. The Musical Portrait of Alma in the First Movement of the Sixth Symphony. The movement follows the classical sonata form and has a clear presentation part, an expansion part, a reproduction part and an end. The second theme of the presentation part is a passionate melody on the violin, which is the only highlight of this symphony, also known as the "Tragedy Symphony", and is called the "Alma Theme". Regarding the unprecedented and magnificent Eighth Symphony "Thousand People", Mahler told his wife that every note is for you. Yes, every note, every note belongs to Alma.
Mahler's reputation is getting bigger and bigger, but the tragic color of fate is getting stronger and stronger. With the painful memory of childhood death, even after marriage, the sense of death is often reflected in Mahler's music works. The fifth symphony begins with the funeral March, but it also has a vision for the future. The Sixth Symphony (also called the Tragedy Symphony) shows the author's despair, as he said: "The hero was hit by the enemy three times, just like a tree was cut down from the middle by an axe, and the third time he fell like a tree." The seventh symphony was once again unveiled with the funeral March. Only the eighth symphony needs an orchestra of 65,438+065,438+00 people, a choir of 950 people and eight soloists. Such a huge lineup celebrates true greatness and glory.
1904, Mahler wrote a series of songs "Song of the Dead Son" based on Luckert's poems mourning his dead son (highly recommended). Mahler may just want to fulfill a childhood wish, but this work becomes an ominous omen.
1907, three years after the completion of Song of Mourning Children, Mahler's beloved eldest daughter, 4-year-old Maria, contracted scarlet fever (diphtheria) and underwent tracheotomy without anesthesia, which failed to save this young life. On Alma's face, Mahler seemed to see the sad face when his mother sent away the child who died young again and again. Everything reappeared strangely, which gave him a great blow. Soon, he was diagnosed with acute endocarditis in his family, and he gradually became depressed. Mahler left work and went to Blah for a holiday with Alma. When walking, Mahler often stops to feel his pulse, or asks his wife to listen to his heartbeat to see if it is clear, fast or calm ... Mahler must carefully measure every step and every heartbeat, so every time he goes out and every attempt to relax in this situation ends in failure.
By chance, a friend brought him "China's flute" translated by hans bethe Geyi, which is a collection of poems of Tang Dynasty. The voice from China, like a fresh wind, helped Mahler overcome the mental crisis temporarily. Mahler decided to compose a symphony with the artistic conception of Tang poetry. But he didn't want to call it the ninth symphony in sequence, because the great Beethoven, Schubert, dvorak and brukner all died after completing their ninth symphonies.
Although Mahler's works are full of death and tragedy, he is so persistent in life that he named this work Song of the Earth. At this time, he is also preparing to leave Vienna and go to a new continent with Alma.
1907, with the financial collapse in Vienna, anti-Semitism became increasingly popular. As a Jew, Mahler decided to resign as director of the National Theatre and go to new york, USA. Apart from music and Alma, Mahler has no home in spirit. He said that his homelessness has three meanings: "among the Austrians, he is a Bohemian, among the Germans, he is an Austrian, and among all people, he is a Jew". It's the same all over the world, only music and his wife Alma. Mahler was a conductor in metropolitan opera and New York Philharmonic, and completed his last work Song of the Earth in June 1909. However, when Mahler treats his wife, his deep feelings are not reflected in the thoughtfulness of life. In the new environment, Alma's feeling of being neglected, coupled with psychological pressure, has caused obstacles to the bed life of the Mahlers. Alma waited painfully for Mahler's caress. She started drinking and suffered from depression.
19 10 in may, alma returned to Austria for a holiday and met walter gropius, an architect four years younger than her, at the hot spring resort center. Gropius is young and handsome, infatuated with the beautiful and melancholy Mrs. Mahler, and they both fall in love. After several months' separation, Gropius mistakenly sent the love letter to Alma to Mahler. Alma's betrayal was mercilessly exposed to Mahler, who was afraid. He began to make up for it and save his wife's heart. He bought a gift for his wife and devoted himself to love; He praised his wife's musical works before marriage and encouraged her to continue composing.
Mahler also went to Freud for spiritual help. Freud found that Mahler had a very strong Oedipus plot. He regards Alma, who is a little disabled, as his mother, and even calls his wife by her mother's name "Mary". "Deep down, Mahler often wants to see his wife endure pain, just like the weak and often abused mother he remembers." In a conversation between Leiden and Freud in the Netherlands, Mahler recalled that when he was a child, he witnessed how his father abused his mother and even raped him drunk. Because of fear, little Mahler ran out of the house and cried beside the hand-cranked organist who was playing a folk song.
Gropius wrote again, hoping Alma would leave Mahler and stay with herself, but Alma refused. She is willing to give herself, Mahler and her eight-year marriage a chance. 19 1 1 year, Mahler became seriously ill, and Alma was always around to take care of him. At Mahler's strong request, Mahler returned to Vienna five days before his death. Mahler died quietly before midnight on May 18. He failed to overcome his fate, leaving behind the first movement of the tenth symphony and the unfinished second movement. At the end of the unfinished manuscript, the huge and trembling handwriting witnessed Mahler's guilt and love for his wife. "I was born with love for you!" Die for you! Alma. "
On the one hand, Alma mourns the death of Mahler, because Mahler is not only her husband, but also her father (Mahler often calls Alma "my daughter"), her artistic deity, and she used to be "the center of life". On the other hand, however, the bondage was broken, and Alma felt a long-lost relief. She regained her freedom. Fortunately, she is still a free and attractive mature woman in her early thirties. 19 12 years, through the introduction of her stepfather, Alma got to know "the rudest beast in Vienna", the wild and presumptuous Oscar Kokosika. Alma generate fell in love with a painter seven years younger than himself, which is unprecedented. They make love crazily day and night. After the passion, Kokosika also painted many portraits for the charming and sexy Alma. They also traveled to Italy together, and everything seemed to be close to goodness and beauty. Gradually, Alma also realized Kokosika's strong desire for control. Kokosika wanted to be the autocratic king of this relationship, and Alma began to be afraid of this man. Besides, Kokosika's mother didn't like the widow who fascinated her son. She wrote to Alma and said, "If you see Oscar again, I'll shoot you."
At this time, Alma was pregnant, and Koko Zeca proposed to her hopefully. In addition, Alma refused, insisted on abortion, and went to the hospital to abort the child, which may leave Coco Zeca with an unhealed wound. The relationship between the two is getting more and more tense. In this context, Kokosika created one of his representative works, Bride in the Wind. In the stormy waves, the "bride" snuggled up to the "groom" and slept peacefully. The "groom" opened his eyes anxiously, as if he had a premonition that she was about to leave him, showing despair and resentment. Some people commented that in this painting full of deformation and twisted lines, the disheartened Koko Zeca "finally faded into a helpless retreat."
Alma, who is no longer a girl, knows that she must leave Coco Zeca even if she has attachment in her heart. It is unthinkable to live with this man. His love is too extreme and dangerous. In fact, Alma refused to see Kokosika again all her life. After breaking up, Kokosika, who was disheartened, joined the army and was seriously injured when fighting Russian troops in Galicia, Spain. At this time, Alma and Gropius got in touch again and got married soon. 19 15, Alma married architect Gropius again. He later founded the pioneer "Bauhaus National Design Institute", which is the first college in the world to develop modern design education. As a master of modern architecture, he opened the "international style" such as glass curtain wall and geometric figures. During World War II, oppressed by the Nazis, Gropius went to the United States as the head of the Department of Architecture of Harvard University, with students including I.M. Pei. Alma had divorced him at that time, and there was another person with him. However, at 19 15, 32-year-old Gropius may feel that he is the happiest person in the world, at least Kokosika and Zhelinski think so.
The irrational Kokosika ordered a life-size doll made entirely in the shape of Alma. Complete facial features, open mouth, teeth and tongue, and even reproductive organs. However, when this "Alma" made of cloth and shavings was placed in front of Kokosika, he was extremely disappointed. The doll can't satisfy his desire, can't replace the "bride in the wind", and can only serve as a still life model when he paints. He drew many sketches and oil paintings on the theme of this doll. One of the most famous paintings, The Blue Woman, has 160 works by Kokosika. Finally, one day, Kokosika decided to get rid of Alma's spell completely. He dressed the doll in all the beautiful clothes and invited his friends to hold a champagne party. At the moment of dawn, Kokosika cut off the doll's head in the garden and poured a bottle of red wine. With the deep red seeping into the soil, Kokosika completed his redemption, at least he won't shield all the sensory worlds for Alma.
Zhelinski, Alma's former music teacher and lover, decided to compose music for Wilde's story The Tragedy of Florence. In Christopher, the husband of an ordinary businessman comes home and finds his wife having an affair with a young aristocrat. From verbal conflict to physical conflict, the husband killed his wife's lover. At the dramatic end, the wife turned to her husband appreciatively: "I never knew you were so strong." The husband replied, "I never knew you were so beautiful." Zhelinsky may be complaining about his colleague Mahler. Less than three years after his death, Mrs. Mahler remarried to the architect lover who broke Mahler's heart that year. At the same time, Zhelinsky, who has been paying attention to Alma all his life, can't help but feel bitter at this time. After the premiere of the play, Alma saw the innuendo and wrote a letter to protest. Zhelinsky wrote back: "This is a real tragedy because it sacrificed one person's life to save two others ... Yes, Alma, why can't you understand?"
Gropius is a respectful, polite and generous person, and a gentleman. Perhaps because of this, this five-year marriage left no special mark in Alma's life, except for a beautiful daughter and mistress, Manon Gropius, who died of polio at the age of sixteen. What Alma needs at this time is not a quiet marriage life, but a passion that will never rust.
19 17, alma had an affair again, this time with Franz weaver, a poet, playwright and novelist ten years younger than her. Alma's first impression of Flantz was very bad, "a fat Jew with thick lips and round legs", as Alma described in her diary. However, Franz is different from her former men. This kind and immature 27-year-old doesn't want to control Alma. In fact, he worships Alma as a savior, goddess and idol. Perhaps for the first time, Alma felt so deeply needed. For the first time, she felt that she was not suppressed by genius. The next year, Alma was pregnant, a premature boy, Wei Fei's child. Ten months later, the sick baby left this world that did not belong to him.
Soon, Gropius quietly withdrew from Alma's life. 1929, at the age of 50, she and Wei started their third marriage. Inspired by Alma, Wei's creative talent reached its peak, and his novel Forty Days of Musadah was a great success. This novel described Turkey's cruel oppression of Armenia during World War I. After the outbreak of World War II, because the novel alluded to Nazi Germany's fascist policy and Jewish descent, it was in extreme danger and its works were banned by Nazi Germany. So the family crossed the Pyrenees on foot and came to America. Under the Stars and Stripes, inspired by Alma, Wei Fei became famous. He wrote the novel Song of Saint Bernard and the drama Jacob Lasky, which were successively put on the screen. Among them, the film version of Song of Saint Bernard won five Oscars with 1942. However, in amal's eyes, Wei will always be a bird in her hand, always longing for her protection, love and help. Feiweier is her husband, and she also personally processed and transformed the jade.
1945, Wei died in Hollywood. Alma lived for another nine years, and the name inscribed on the tombstone was Alma Mahler Weffer.
In Alma's diary, she revealed more admirers, including pianist Osp Gabrielovich (Mahler's friend, who later served as the conductor of the Detroit Symphony Orchestra, helping the Detroit Symphony Orchestra to enter the ranks of world-class orchestras), playwright gerhart hauptmann (winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 19 12) and biologist Paul kammler (doing experiments with amphibians, it is proved that the environment can lead to genetic adaptation changes). They are all outstanding elites in their respective fields, but perhaps their talents and personalities are not enough to inspire Alma's love. Alma just scribbled down great names. I'm afraid more people are obsessed with her style, because ordinary, because ordinary, can't let her eyes stay even for a moment.
Alma is so unique that it is the focus of everyone's attention everywhere. She is like a black hole, absorbing all the light and heat, love and glory around her. She is radiant and talented, and she is born with the instinct to learn from first-class talents. If she is a goddess, she can help her lover become a human god. If she is a siren, she just confuses herself with beauty and gets the trophy. Then it can be said that she has succeeded. No one can really resist her. Every time, she will always be the ultimate winner. Maybe we should thank her for her temptation. It was in the torture and pain of her love that the geniuses thought of being born, leaving such a gorgeous artistic wealth to the world.
Alma also has her own pain and sadness. In that era full of male chauvinism, Alma has been reluctant to give herself a secondary position in front of men with gender roles. She once said helplessly, "Marriage often replaces herself in a strange way." However, Alma is immortal in Mahler's melody, in Gropius's steel buildings, in Kokosika's wild lines and compositions, and in Wei Fei's poems and novels.
Alma, 54, was her last lover in the United States. She was a young theological professor named Johannes hollins Nair. People sighed: "Some people compose, paint and write poems for Alma. Before that, no one had dispelled her. " Even the servants of God can't resist Alma's light.
Alma Maria Maher (1879- 1964)
Born in an artist's family, she showed her talent for music and painting very early. She is too beautiful, too affectionate and too early to get too much praise from her father, artists and friends, but she has become a lifelong puzzle. She doesn't know whether she wants to be a good artist or a good lover, and she doesn't know whether she loves artists or art.
She married three outstanding artists in three different fields, namely, musician Malkh, architect and founder of Bauhaus College in walter gropius, and writer Franz Werfel. Her lovers include painter gustav klimt, composer Zilynskyj, painter Oscar Kokoschka and composer Pfizer. ...
Her love story is a history of Vienna art. Mahler dedicated the eighth symphony to her, "Every note is addressed to you"; In the manuscript of his last work, the Tenth Symphony, "forever dedicated to Alma", "only you know" and "born for you" can be seen everywhere! Die for you! Alma. "Affectionate confession. Kirk Sika, a painter six years younger than her, fell in love with her at first sight, wrote more than 400 love letters and created many oil paintings for her. Expressionism painting's masterpiece Bride of the Wind witnessed their "eternal union". When Alma decided to leave, he couldn't accept the fact and went to Munich to order a doll exactly like Alma!
Chemlinski once advised Alma, who was only 20 years old: "Compose or socialize: you can only choose one of the two!" However, if the art salon in Vienna lacks Alma's elegant figure and wise speech, how dull it will be! She influenced two generations of Vienna artists with passion and beauty, and wrote her life into a legend in the history of art. (Quoted from China Contemporary Art Database)