An essential link for every Bruckner-
John Berky’s amazing discography site at...
AND NOW ALSO HAS POSTED BACK COPIES OF
THE BRUCKNER JOURNAL FROM 1997 TO 2007 AT
www.abruckner.com/articles/brucknerjournal
A NEW ENGLISH LANGUAGE BOOK ON BRUCKNER:
Compositional Development and the Dynamics of Revision
Dermot Gault
January 2011
234 x 156 mm, 278 pages Hardback, Includes c.39 musical examples and 3 tables
978-
The New Bruckner provides a valuable study of Bruckner's music, focusing on the interaction of biography, textual scholarship, reception history and analysis. Dr Dermot Gault conveys a broad chronological narrative of Bruckner's compositional development, interpolating analytical commentaries on the works and critical accounts of the notoriously complex and editorial issues. Gault corrects longstanding misconceptions about the composer's revision process, and its relationship with the early editions and widely held critical opinions. Bruckner's constantly evolving engagement with symphonic form is traced by taking each revision in due order, rather than by taking each symphony on its own, and by relating the symphonies to other mature works such as the Te Deum, the three great Masses, and the Quintet, and Gault argues that Bruckner's music became more organic and less schematic as the result of his revisions. The book will be essential reading for all interested in Bruckner's compositions, the complex history of their reception, and late Romantic music in general.
Contents: Preface -
The emergence of the 'Bruckner symphony' -
Bruckner and his disciples -
Appendix Select bibliography -
Dermot Gault was born in Belfast and studied music at Queen's University Belfast, where he obtained a doctorate for a thesis on Bruckner's symphonies in 1994. He has contributed to The Bruckner Journal since its inception and addressed Bruckner Conferences in Nottingham and Oxford. He has also contributed to Music Ireland and The Irish Times.
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The Yahoo Anton Bruckner Club message board hosts lively and often informative discussion, and brings Brucknerians across the world together:
http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/antonbrucknerclub
An Aart van der Wal interview:
A Bruckner Odyssey: The Ninth Symphony
Sir Simon Rattle talks about the four movement version
The web-
http://www.benjamingunnarcohrs.com
Multivariate Life -
Life involves many, if not too many, variables. Experiencing life and exploring the meaning of it will add a special aura to your own. Sharing it will make it sublime. A blog with unreserved enthusiasm for Anton Bruckner's music, by Horace Lau
http://www.multivariate-
A discussion group set up by Holger Grintz, welcomes English contributions, is at
An extraordinary list of forthcoming Bruckner concerts all over the world is assembled by Tatsuro Ouchi http://www.bekkoame.ne.jp/~hippo/musik/konzertvorschau/bruckner.html
An essential concert-
They provide a very useful e-
ANTON BRUCKNER INSTITUTE LINZ (ABIL)
Once the heart of Bruckner studies in Austria, now suffering from cuts and a blurring
of its mission. It hosts the amazing data-
Anton Bruckner Chronologie Datenbank (ABCD).
Just type in a date and everything known about what Bruckner was doing then will come up; just type in a name and everything connecting that person to Bruckner will become available.
In German, but very useful.
For Bruckner scores complete edition,
find details in English at Musikwissenschaftlicher Verlag
http://www.mwv.at/english/index.htm
Bruckner Autograph Scores On-
are available to view at the Austrian National Library web-
1. The scores are in the ÖNB-
2. In the SCHNELL-
For example, for Symphony No. 4. type: WAB 104 You now get a list of autograph items for Symphony No.4
3. Click on item 1 -
At the top of the list of details that comes up is: Digitales Objekt Digitalisat
Only autographs that have this at the top of the list are at present available on-
able to find which ones are on-
4. Click on Digitalisat, the autograph score will come up on your screen.
Autograph scores available include
seach term: click on:
WAB 102 Item 2 Sinphonie [sic] (No 2 in C moll) Mus.Hs.6034
WAB 103 Item 8 & Item 9 Wagner Sinfonie No 3 D moll
WAB 104 Item 1 & 2 1878/80 and 1874
WAB 105 Item 3 Sinfonie No 5 in B
WAB 106 Item 5 VI. Sinfonie
WAB 107 Item 1, 2 & 5 Sinfonie No 7
WAB 108 Item 1 8. Sinfonie Mus.Hs.19480
WAB 109 Item 2 9. Sinfonie Mus.Hs.19481
WAB 26 Item 8 Messe Nr.1 in d-
WAB 27 Item 4 Messe Nr.2 in e-
WAB 28 Item 6 Messe Nr.3 in f-
and others that further searching will reward
Some of these autograph scores have now become available, and may be more easy for
English language users, at Petrucci Music Library www.imslp.org -
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BrucknerTage, St Florian, 18-
Bruckner & Wagner
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A September music festival in Linz, centred at the Brucknerhaus concert hall, with a series of concerts from artists worldwide and usually some works by Bruckner
“Simon Sechter’s Fundamental-
A new book by Frederick Stocken
What manner of musical knowledge did Bruckner develop from his time with Simon Sechter?
Seeking the Infinite -
by Dr Frederick E Harris Jnr
Bruckner Journal book review here
OUT OF TIME -
Bruckner Journal Book review here
Bruckner’s Seventh Symphony as Landscape
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