Background
Monson, Karen Ann was born on March 25, 1945 in New Haven. Daughter of Harold and Sarah Catherine (McBride) Monson.
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Alban Berg
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Alma Mahler: Muse to Genius: From Fin-de-Siècle Vienna to Hollywood's Heyday 1st edition by Monson, Karen (1983) Hardcover
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Alma Mahler: Muse to Genius
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Alma Mahler: Muse to Genius: From Fin-de-Siècle Vienna to Hollywood's Heyday
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"The most beautiful girl in Vienna", she married Gustav Mahler, the composer and conductor who held the most powerful position in the world of music in 1902, when she was twenty-two. After Mahler's death she married Walter Gropius, and stayed his wife throughout the years when he was founding the Bauhaus and revolutionizing the world of design. When she was fifty, she married Franz Werfel, author of The Song of Bernadette, The 40 Days of Musa Dagh, Jacobowsky and the Colonel, and much more. Alma was united in love, sexually or not, with Alexander von Zemlinsky, her music teacher and the only mentor ever recognized by Arnold Schoenberg; with Ossip Gabrilovitch, pianist and conductor; with Gerhart Hauptmann, the dramatist; and, most importantly, with the artist Oskar Kokoschka, who called her a "wild brat" on her seventieth birthday and wanted the love they shared to be immortalized for future generations. The daughter of a celebrated Viennese landscape painter, Alma grew up privileged, with a taste for luxury but not always with the money to support her tastes. Over the years, she accumulated country houses, a dwelling of landmark stature on a Venetian canal and a mansion in Vienna. She might have become an important composer; had she been born a century later, she could have been a conductor. As it was, she devoted her life to men whom she considered to be geniuses.
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Karen Ann Monson
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Bachelor of Arts, Radcliffe College, 1966.
Career
Music critic, Los Angeles Herald-Examiner, 1969-1973;
Music critic, Chicago Daily News, 1973-1978;
Music critic, Baltimore Sun, 1984-1985;
fellow, Rockefeller Foundation project for training music critics University of Southern California, 1967-1969;
member resident faculty, Rockefeller Foundation project for training music critics University of Southern California, 1971-1973;
member summer faculty, Ravinia (Illinois) Museum Critics Association, 1973;
free-lance correspondent, Wall Street Journal
free-lance correspondent, Ovation
free-lance correspondent, Museum American. Commentator-co producer Stravinsky '75, WFMT, Chicago, 1975, The Music of Alban Berg, WFMT, Chicago, 1977, 20th Century Art Song, WFMT, 1979. Member of faculty University of Chicago Extension.
Music columnist Chicago magazine, 1978-1980. Director Music Critics Association Institutions, Aspen, Colorado, 1978, 80, Louise Lincoln Kerr Cultural Center, Scottsdale, Arizona, 1980-1982.
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Works
book
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Alma Mahler: Muse to Genius: From Fin-de-Siècle Vienna to Hollywood's Heyday
("The most beautiful girl in Vienna", she married Gustav M...)
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ALBAN BERG
(Illustrated with photographs.)
- Alma Mahler, Muse to Genius, From Fin-de -Siecle Vienna to Hollywood's Hayday
- Alban Berg
- Alma Mahler: Muse to Genius: From Fin-de-Siècle Vienna to Hollywood's Heyday 1st edition by Monson, Karen (1983) Hardcover
- Alma Mahler: Muse to Genius
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Alma Mahler: Muse to Genius: From Fin-de-Siècle Vienna to Hollywood's Heyday
Membership
Member Music Critics Association (chairman education committee, treasurer).
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January 30, 1988 (aged 42) -
Nationality
American
Awards
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Recipient Peabody award, 1975, Deems Taylor award for criticism American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers, 1977. Armstrong award, 1980. Fulbright fellow West Berlin, 1966-1967.Recipient Peabody award, 1975, Deems Taylor award for criticism American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers, 1977. Armstrong award, 1980. Fulbright fellow West Berlin, 1966-1967.