Gustav Mahler Stube


The Gustav Mahler Stube, formerly Trenkenhof, is a farmhouse in Altschluderbach, near Toblach in South Tyrol, Italy. It has a restaurant with a Tyrolean cuisine and two apartments. The Stube furthermore manages an animal park with domestic, wild and exotic animals.
The farmhouse is especially known as the former residence of the Austrian composer Gustav Mahler, who stayed here from 1908 to 1910. The first floor was a museum on his life and work. His composing hut is located in the park and is still equipped as a small museum and memorial.

Gustav Mahler

History

Mahler and his wife Alma visited the place for the first time in 1907. They lived here in the summer from 1908 to 1910; after his death, she stayed here in 1911 too. After their daughter Putzi died in 1907 at the Wörthersee, where Mahler had previously had his composing hut, they decided not to return there anymore but to live on the first floor of this farmhouse instead. Aside, the wooden little house near Trenkenhof was prepared for Mahler, so he could compose music there.
In Altschluderbach he composed his ninth and tenth symphony.

Museum

In 2004, the first floor was still equipped as a museum. With furniture from his life and other memorabilia, it presented the way he lived here. This floor is no longer open to the public.
At a distance of five minutes, the little composing hut in the animal park still functions as a museum and memorial. Here, he had three pianos at his disposal in order to compose music during his stay. There are a number of presentation plates that recall his work and life.
There are more former composing huts of Mahler that still exist. There is also a composing hut at the Attersee, Upper Austria, and one at the Wörthersee in Carinthia.

Gustav Mahler Wild Park

Next to the farmhouse, an animal park was created around 1985 with the character of a spacious petting zoo. The animals vary from domestic and exotic animals to wild animals from the Alps, like deer, roe deer, wild boars, washing bears, owls and lynxes.