Alma Schindler, daughter of landscapist Emil Schindler, and step-daughter to secessionist Carl Moll, is best known for her marriages to three other prominent artists, the architect Walter Gropius, the novelist Franz Werfel, and, of course, most famously of all, the musician Gustav Mahler. But Alma, a student of Zemlinsky's, was herself a gifted composer. After meeting Mahler, she was severely discouraged from composing, however, and produced virtually nothing throughout the marriage, at least until approximately the time of his Eighth Symphony. Thankfully, as the Mahler revival started taking shape in the middle of the last century, this led to an ancillary revival in interest in Alma's works, which eventually led to deserved interest in her works in their own right. Several of her songs are quite excellent. As a sample, I offer a complete rendering of her setting of Otto Bierbaum's "Laue Sommernacht" as this month's CCM.