This cemetery is the burial place of the composer Gustav Mahler who died in 1911 and was placed beside his daughter. As the leading orchestral and operatic conductor of his time his widow, Alma Mahler-Werfel, actively published material about his life and music following his death and it was her who commissioned the modernist tombstone which marks his grave, and was designed by Josef Hoffmann, the Austrian architect. Having outlived her husband by more than 50 years, Alma now lies nearby. Also buried here is the one -armed pianist, Paul Wittgenstein, as well as other actors, politicians and architects.