Opinions once varied on the music of Anton Bruckner (born on September 4, 1824 in Ansfelden, near Linz), who ranks amongst the great symphonists after Beethoven. While one faction regarded him as a destroyer of traditions, the other side ecstatically...  more

Following the world première of Bruckner’s 8th Symphony, Viennese music critic Eduard Hanslick wrote: "It is not impossible to imagine that this dream-dazed caterwauling belongs to the future – a future we do not envy for it.” We can make out both...

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