Anton Bruckner lived and worked as a school assistant in Windhaag for two years from 1841 to 1843. Today you would say that the then 17-year-old did his internship as a teacher here. His “Windhague Mass” dates back to this period, which is still often sung today because it is rather simple compared to other Bruckner works.
The fact that Bruckner couldn’t really take the place to his heart was mainly due to the constant conflicts with his instructor: the schoolmaster Franz Fuchs, who worked here, was so jealous of the 17-year-old’s musical talent that he humiliated him wherever he could went. He wasn’t even allowed to sit at the family table, which is why he had to eat his meals together with the maid. In return, Bruckner also indulged in a number of pranks: he is said to have once intentionally put the chasuble on the priest, whom he had to help as a sexton, the wrong way around so that he would stumble when entering the church. It is also said in Windhaag that the young Bruckner once filled a turtle with candles one night and let it walk through the cemetery, which made some people in Windhaag believe that ghosts were walking in the cemetery. Tired of the constant conflicts with his teacher, Bruckner applied for a transfer back to St. Florian at the end of 1842, which was granted to him a few months later.
It is therefore obvious that the 2024 museum season at the local Green Belt Center will be dedicated to the composer, who would have celebrated his 200th birthday this year. Tomorrow’s public holiday starts at 2 p.m. with a Bruckner hike accompanied by Heinz Graser. Starting from the Green Belt Center, the participants follow in the footsteps of the great musician and composer. In addition to the first place of work, the home and the parish church where Bruckner played the organ are also visited. Heinz Graser will enrich the hike with anecdotes about Windhaag’s most famous assistant teacher.
A photo competition on the theme of “Bruckner’s Windhague souvenir album” will also be dedicated to the annual regent in Windhaag. Creative ideas can still be submitted. We are looking for pictures of motifs that already existed in Windhaag near Freistadt during Anton Bruckner’s time (buildings, paths, Kreuzstöckl, school pictures, etc.). But pictures that show Bruckner’s everyday life with school, church service and music, which could be included in his Windhaag memory album, are also welcome. The imagination knows no limits. The submitted images will be exhibited from May 26th and can be rated by visitors. The images with the most votes will be announced on June 23rd.
The opening times of the Green Belt Center this year will be limited to Sundays and public holidays (9:30 a.m. to 12 p.m.; 1 p.m. to 5 p.m.). Saturday will therefore no longer be a museum day. Further information is available on the Internet at www.greenbeltcenter.eu
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