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Memorial places and important places in Austria for Mahler's life
Bad Hall
Upper Austria. Market town. Health resort in the northern Traunviertel.
First documentary mention in 777.
In 1880, Gustav Mahler conducted the health-resort orchestra in Bad
Hall.
Sights:
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Castle (1645)
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Jugendstil building (built between 1895 and 1910)
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Late classicist town hall
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In the outskirts: Baroque castle of Feyregg
Bad Ischl
Upper Austria. City (1940). Health resort in the heart of the Salzkammergut,
confluence of Traun and Ischl.
Popular summer resort of Emperor Franz Joseph I and the composers
Gustav Mahler visited Bad Ischl in 1894 and 1896. During his second sojourn,
he met Johannes Brahms.
Sights:
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Lehár villa
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Haenel-Pancera museum
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"Ischl operetta weeks" from July to September
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Imperial villa with landscape garden
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Ischler Salzberg (680m) with show salt-mine near Perneck
Maiernigg near Viktring am Wörthersee
In summer 1899, Gustav Mahler acquired a site in Maiernigg. During the
next year, he built a house there. The Mahler family spent regularly the
summer months at the „Villa Mahler" till the tragic death of the eldest
daughter Anna Maria in 1907, then they gave up the house. In Maiernigg
Mahler composed the Fourth, Fifth, Sixth, Seventh and Eighth Symphony and
the „Kindertotenlieder".
Steinbach am Attersee
Upper Austria. Commune on the east bank of the Attersee. Wharf.
Sights:
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Late Gothic parish church (1516)
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Gustav Mahler's composing room
From 1893 to 1899, Gustav Mahler spent with his sister Justine the summer
months here. In 1894, he built a simply furnished composing cottage. During
his summer stays, he composed the Second and Third Symphony. Summer concerts
are performed here since 1991.
Komponierstube Gustav Mahlers
(im Gasthof Föttinger)
Seefeld 14
A - 4853 Steinbach am Attersee
Vienna
Wien 1., Bartensteingasse 3
Gustav Mahler lived here from 1887 to 1888.
Wien 1., Opernring 2, Staatsoper
At the foyer of the second floor there is a bust of Mahler created by Auguste
Rodin (1840-1917).
The opera house of Vienna, designed by August von Siccardsburg (constructional
plans) and Eduard van der Nüll (decoration), was built between 1861
and 1869 as first large building of the new Ringstraße. The building
in historicist style uses structural elements of the Venetian and French
Renaissance, but shows also the influence of the opera houses of Dresden
and Paris.
The five allegorical bronze sculptures and the two Pegasus groups
on the roof were created by Ernst Julius Hännel, the figures on the
fountains on both sides of the main section by Julius Gasser. The lunettes
in the foyer and the ceiling frescos of the loggia above the entrance hall
were made after models by Moritz von Schwind. At first, the building did
not win the Vienneses' heart and was subject to mocking criticism because
of its site and eclecticism. In 1945, Aircraft bombs destroyed nearly the
whole house. In was restored by intensive works lasting ten years. The
auditorium received a completely new design by Erich Boltenstern, the sketches
for the thirteen tapestries of the second interval room, the „Gobelinsaal",
with motifs of the Zauberflöte were created by Rudolf Hermann Eisenmenger.
Wien 2., Praterstrasse 31
Leopoldstädter Theater, later Carltheater (does not exist anymore).
In May 1847, the antiquated Leopoldstädter Thetaer was pulled
down. After a time of construction of eight months, a new building was
raised, designed by the architects Eduard van der Nüll (1812-1868)
and August Siccard von Siccardsburg (1813-1868), and inaugurated as „Carltheater"
on December 10th 1847.
The figures on the facade were created by the painter and sculptor
Hanns Gasser (1817-1868). Johann Nestroy managed the theater from 1854
to 1860. Here, Franz von Suppé's
first operetta („Das Pensionat") was performed for the first time on November
24th 1860. In 1883, Gustav Mahler took up the position of choir conductor
at the Carltheater.
The thetare was cloed down in 1928. In 1944, the building met
with heavy air-raid damages and was finally pulled down in 1951.
Wien 3., Auenbruggergasse 2 / Rennweg 5
In this house, built by Otto Wagner, Gustav Mahler lived from 1898 to 1909
(commemorative tablet).
Wien 3., Lothringerstraße 20, Konzerthaus
A commemorative tablet reminds of the fact that Mahler's works were banned
during the National Socialist era.
Wien 5., Margaretenstraße 7, 2. Stiege (second stairwell)
Mahler lived here in 1877/78 during his student days.
Wien 19., An den langen Lüssen, Grinzinger Friedhof
At the Grinzinger Friedhof (cemetery of Grinzing) Gustav Mahler received
a tomb of honor (Gruppe 6, Reihe 7, Nr. 1). The tombstone was created by
Josef Hoffmann (1870-1956). His wife Alma, his sister Justine and his brother-in-law
Arnold Rosé were also laid to rest at this cemetery.
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