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Alma Mahler, photograph dating from around 1920. Even many years after their love affair, an encounter or communication with Alma Mahler could unleash special feelings in Zemlinsky. In 1917, when Alma made some negative remarks about Zemlinsky's opera Eine florentinische Tragödie, he reacted with one of his rhetorically most brilliant letters full of sharpness and emotion.