![[MAHLER, Alma (1879-1964)] -- Franz WERFEL (1890-1945). Autograph manuscript signed ('Werfel'), Christmas 1917, and inscribed 'Für Frau Alma Mahler ... zur Erinnerung an eine Nacht voll Musik und an gute Herberge [in remembrance of a night full of music and of good lodgings]', of his poem, 'Einsam sind wir auf dem Erden-Stern' [published, with some textual differences, as 'An die Sibylle Mara' in Der Gerichtstag, 1919], 12 lines on the front endpaper of Smetana, Der Kuss, vocal score, Universal Edition, n.d., cloth-covered boards (spotted). Provenance: by descent to Gustav Mahler's nephew, Wolfgang Rosé; and by gift.](https://www.christies.com/img/LotImages/2013/CKS/2013_CKS_01160_0067_000(mahler_alma_--_franz_werfel_autograph_manuscript_signed_christmas_1917033848).jpg?w=1)
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[MAHLER, Alma (1879-1964)] -- Franz WERFEL (1890-1945). Autograph manuscript signed ('Werfel'), Christmas 1917, and inscribed 'Für Frau Alma Mahler ... zur Erinnerung an eine Nacht voll Musik und an gute Herberge [in remembrance of a night full of music and of good lodgings]', of his poem, 'Einsam sind wir auf dem Erden-Stern' [published, with some textual differences, as 'An die Sibylle Mara' in Der Gerichtstag, 1919], 12 lines on the front endpaper of Smetana, Der Kuss, vocal score, Universal Edition, n.d., cloth-covered boards (spotted). Provenance: by descent to Gustav Mahler's nephew, Wolfgang Rosé; and by gift.
Alma Mahler's affair with Werfel had begun in the autumn of 1917, in the absence of her husband, Walter Gropius, at the Western front, and a son, Martin Gropius, was born prematurely in August 1918. Although Gropius and Alma divorced in 1920, she and Werfel were not to marry until 1929.
Alma Mahler's affair with Werfel had begun in the autumn of 1917, in the absence of her husband, Walter Gropius, at the Western front, and a son, Martin Gropius, was born prematurely in August 1918. Although Gropius and Alma divorced in 1920, she and Werfel were not to marry until 1929.
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Eugenio Donadoni