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.

Gustav Mahler Stube

the Gustav Mahler Stube in 2013
Location within Italy
Location	Altschluderbach bei Toblach
Coordinates	46°43′41.75″N 12°12′5.508″E
Type	museum
Collections	about Gustav Mahler
Website	www.mahlernaturklangpark.com

The farmhouse is especially known as the former residence of the Austrian composer Gustav Mahler (1860-1911), 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 composing hut

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.[1]

In Altschluderbach he composed " Das Lied von der Erde", his ninth and (not completed) tenth symphony.[2]

Museum

At a distance of five minutes, the little composing hut. Here Gustav Mahler created his 9th, 10th symphony and " Das Lied von der Erde". At the moment it is under restauration and it will be open for public as a Gustav Mahler nature sound parc In Altschluderbach, Toblach. A Gustav Mahler Festival is hold every year to remember Gustav Mahler´s stay in Toblach.

There are more former composing huts of Mahler that still exist. There is also a composing hut at the Attersee, Upper Austria,[3] and one at the Wörthersee in Carinthia.[4]

Gustav Mahler Nature Sound Parc

Until 2020 the cabin was included in the Gustav Mahler Wild Park. The new project includes a direct access to the cabin within a Nature Sound Park. Restauration of the cabin started autumn 2021. The cabin was fully restaured in July 2022. For not there is no direct access for visitors. It is private. But there is work in progress to realize a parc for visitors in honour of Gustav Mahler Toblach.

See also

• List of museums in Italy
• List of music museums

References

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