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Anton Bruckner: A Life

Few would seriously dispute that Anton Bruckner was one of the all-time great symphonists. Indeed, his many admirers would passionately claim that in his scores the symphonic ideal reached its apex.

His music doesn’t titillate, it doesn’t go in for surface excitement, and you’ll be hard pressed to find a single whistleable tune in his entire output. His orchestration isn’t glamorous, he doesn’t employ seductive harmonies and, what’s more, his symphonies last up to an hour-and-a-quarter in length.

So what exactly can you expect from a typical Bruckner listening experience? Well, a blisteringly wide dynamic range for a start. One minute you can be straining to hear some faint rustlings from the upper strings, the next you’re being pounded into submission by a lacerating outburst from the brass section in full cry.

Bruckner’s music also possesses a thrilling, epic quality quite unlike any other. He often sets the listener up for a spectacular musical resolution, and then turns expectation on its head by tak

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Biography

Anton Bruckner is an exceptional figure. Hugely influenced by the music of Richard Wagner, he idolised the operatic revolutionary to the point of obsession. But he also had deep roots in the church music of Bach, Haydn, Mozart and Palestrina. The intense, dark sensuality of Wagner’s Tristan and Isolde left a deep imprint on his harmonic style. Yet his symphonies have been described as ‘cathedrals in sound’, reflecting their spacious architectural qualities and mood of religious devotion. It took Bruckner a long time to settle on composing as a career. Almost all of his works that are performed regularly today were written after he turned 40. His first surviving composition, a setting of the hymn Pange lingua, was written when he was 11. As a child, he was encouraged by his cousin, the organist and church composer Johann Baptist Weiss, who would play Haydn, Mozart and Schubert from memory. Then, when Bruckner was 12, his father died after a long battle with tuberculosis. His mother took him to the nearby monastery of St Florian, where he was given board and education, wi

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Anton Bruckner

Austrian composer (1824–1896)

"Bruckner" redirects here. For other uses, see Bruckner (disambiguation).

Joseph Anton Bruckner (; German:[ˈantoːnˈbʁʊknɐ]^ⓘ; 4 September 1824 – 11 October 1896) was an Austrian composer and organist best known for his symphonies and sacred music, which includes Masses, Te Deum and motets. The symphonies are considered emblematic of the final stage of Austro-GermanRomanticism because of their rich harmonic language, strongly polyphonic character, and considerable length.^[1] Bruckner's compositions helped to define contemporary musical radicalism, owing to their dissonances, unprepared modulations, and roving harmonies.

Unlike other musical radicals such as Richard Wagner and Hugo Wolf, Bruckner showed respect, even humility, before other famous musicians, Wagner in particular. This apparent dichotomy between Bruckner the man and Bruckner the composer hampers efforts to describe his life in a way that gives a straightforward context for his music. Hans von Bülow described him as "half genius, ha