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7 unusual facts about Anton Bruckner


Eela Craig

The compositions resembled the works of Anton Bruckner, mixed with elements of rock and electronic music.

Hans Knappertsbusch

Hans Knappertsbusch (12 March 1888 – 25 October 1965) was a German conductor, best known for his performances of the music of Richard Wagner, Anton Bruckner and Richard Strauss.

Henry Swoboda

He made many recordings for the Westminster label, including the first commercially available record of Bruckner's Sixth Symphony.

Libera Me

In addition to the Gregorian chant in the Roman Gradual, many composers have written settings for the text, including Tomás Luis de Victoria, Anton Bruckner, Giuseppe Verdi, Gabriel Fauré, Maurice Duruflé, Benjamin Britten, Krzysztof Penderecki and David Maslanka.

London Classical Players

Anton Bruckner: Symphony No. 3, Virgin Veritas 4820912 (reissue)

Ludwig Manoly

At the Vienna Conservatory, he studied double bass with Franz Simandl; harmony, counterpoint, and composition with Anton Bruckner; and conducting with Joseph Hellmesberger.

Takashi Asahina

Inspired by a meeting with Wilhelm Furtwängler in the 1950s, he began a lifelong attachment to the music of Anton Bruckner, recording the complete Bruckner symphonies several times.


Bruckner's early Masses

Anton Bruckner's early Masses were settings of the Mass composed while he was a schoolteacher's assistant in Windhaag (1841-1843) and Kronstorf (1843-1845).

English Musical Renaissance

The musicologist Colin Eatock writes that the term "English musical renaissance" carries "the implicit proposition that British music had raised itself to a stature equal to the best the continent had to offer"; among the continental composers of the period were Brahms, Tchaikovsky, Dvořák, Fauré, Bruckner, Mahler and Puccini.

Ernst Kurth

Kurth studied musicology with Guido Adler (a student of Bruckner and Hanslick) in Vienna, and earned his Ph.D (1908) with a thesis about Christoph Willibald Gluck's's operatic style.

Germanenzug

Germanenzug (WAB 70) is a secular cantata composed in 1863–1864 by Anton Bruckner on a text by August Silberstein.

Hugo Reinhold

He was admitted to the Conservatorium der Musikfreunde, where he studied under Anton Bruckner, Felix Dessoff and Julius Epstein, among others.

Leonard Ratzlaff

He obtained his graduate degree in choral conducting from the University of Iowa, and his doctoral dissertation on Anton Bruckner's Te Deum earned him the American Choral Directors Association Julius Herford Dissertation Prize.

Stadtpark, Vienna

Scattered throughout the park are statues of famous Viennese artists, writers, and composers, including Hans Canon, Emil Jakob Schindler, Johann Strauss II, Franz Schubert, and Anton Bruckner.

Uwe Grodd

His appointment to conduct The Auckland Choral Society was confirmed at Holy Trinity Cathedral, Auckland, on 28 September 2008, in a concert that concluded with Anton Bruckner's Locus Iste, Handel's Coronation Anthems and "David Roi".


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Catherine Neilson

She also starred in two films by Ken Russell: The Strange Affliction of Anton Bruckner (1990), which included a nude scene, and Prisoner of Honor (1991).

Kurt Raab

He completed the abitur at Musische Gymnasium Straubing, and studied in Munich.

Siegmund von Hausegger

Hausegger assisted Robert Haas and Alfred Orel in preparing the edition of Symphony published as Volume 9 of Anton Bruckner: Sämtliche Werke and he also made the first commercial recording of the symphony with the Munich Philharmonic in 1938 for HMV, using that edition.