Alma Mahler was an Austrian composer and pianist born in Vienna in 1879 who began composing and performing in the early 1900s, producing primarily late‑Romantic Lieder, piano pieces and small-scale chamber works. Her musical style employs late‑Romantic harmonic language and intimate song forms, and her career and output were shaped by her prominent role in Viennese cultural circles and later by reduced compositional activity as domestic and social obligations took precedence.
