[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.
[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.
![[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://devapim.christies.com/uat/lot-images/5749321/2013/CKS/2013_CKS_01160_0067_000(mahler_alma_--_franz_werfel_autograph_manuscript_signed_christmas_1917033848).jpg?maxwidth=3840)