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ANTON BRUCKNER

4thSeptember 1824 --- 11thOctober 1896

Anton Bruckner (1824-96), Austrian composer, son of a village schoolmaster, was destined for a teaching career
but was taught the organ, and at the age of l3, when his father died, he went as chorister to the monastery of St
Florian, where he received more systematic training in music.

He composed  much while filling  various teaching posts,  but it was not till the age of 31 that he was appointed
organist at Lint Cathedral.  He took a severe course  of study under Sechter  during visits to  Vienna, another  in
orchestration and form under  Kitzler at Lint, and only at the  age of 40 did he  write his first  mature work,  the
Mass  in D  minor.  In 1868 he became  professor at the Vienna  Conservatory,  in 1869 he visited France, and in
1871 England as organ virtuoso.

In 1878 he  was appointed to the court chapel,  but  he was never comfortably off to the end of his life  and  his
works  made headway very slowly.  He wrote a vast amount of sacred and secular choral music on a small scale
but very little for  the piano or organ,  his important works are his Masses and Te Deum, the string Quintet,  and
particularly his 9 symphonies which,  though desultory in form,  show his greatness by  grandeur of  conception
splendour  of orchestration  and expansive melodic beauty. He was too easily induced by his fellow professional
friends to revise,  to cut and to  rescore the  symphonies,  with the result that various  versions exist to confuse
students and to provoke endless quarrels among experts.

Last Updated on 2024
By Steven Ritchie

And now for the Music

Thanks to M.Takimoto and Nsok for the music below.

(3545)"Symphony No.2, 1st Mov". Sequenced by M.Takimoto.

(3544)"Symphony No.8, 4th Mov". Sequenced by M.Takimoto.

NEW (4536)"Symphony No.9, 1st Mov". Sequenced by Nsok.

NEW (4536)"Symphony No.9, 2nd Mov". Sequenced by Nsok.

(3543)"Symphony No.9, 4th Mov". Sequenced by M.Takimoto.

Thanks to George Pollen for the music below. Link to his website on my Bookmark page.

(2144)"Symphony No.7, in E major, 3rd Mov,(Scerzo)". Sequenced by George Pollen

Thanks to Ramon Pajares Box for the music below.

(1040)"Symphony No.7, in E major, 1st Mov". Sequenced by Ramón Pajares Box

(149)"S.Trostein Music". Sequenced by Marty Weimer

(170)"Music the Comforters". Sequenced by Marty Weimer

(169)"Ave Maria". Sequenced by Anders Myrin

(250)"Te Deum, Part Two". Sequenced by David Siu

(248)"Offertorium Afferentur". Sequencer unknown

(249)"Te Deum, Part One". Sequencer unknown

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