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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An essential link for every Bruckner-
John Berky’s amazing discography site at...
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THE BRUCKNER JOURNAL FROM 1997 TO 2007 AT
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Bruckner Journal Book review here
The Yahoo Anton Bruckner Club message board hosts lively and often informative discussion, and brings Brucknerians across the world together:
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A discussion group hosted 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)
The heart of Bruckner studies in Austria -
It hosts the amazing data-
In German, but very useful.
For Bruckner scores, find details in English at Musikwissenschaftlicher Verlag
http://www.mwv.at/english/index.htm
BrucknerTage, St Florian, 12-
Anton Bruckner’s Musical Roots
Sun 12 Aug: Vienna String Soloists (members of the Vienna Philharmonic)
with ‘Street Children of Bolivia’ (ORF -
by F J Aumann, G. Rossini/Schiedermayr, Haydn Symphonies arr. strings, and others.
Mon. 13 Aug: ‘Bruckner’s Organ Repertoire’: Cathedral Organist Pierre Thimus, Liège/Belgium
Tues 14 Aug: Bruckner -
Altomonte-
Wed 15 Aug: Piano trio by Aug. Fr. Kropfreiter Ländler by Bruckner Mendelssohn -
Thurs 16 Aug: Jazz concert: ‘Jo Barnikel plays Bruckner’
Fri 17 Aug: Bruckner -
French National Youth Orchestra / Dennis Russell Davies
Sat 18 Aug: Conversational Concert: From eternal schoolboy to immortal master.
The musical roots of Bruckner’s development. Matthias Giesen -
A festival in the wonderful surroundings of Ebrach Abbey, at the end of July 2011
Bruckner Symphonies 1, 2 and 3 in editions by William Carragan
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
Bruckner’s Seventh Symphony as Landscape
A painting by Edwina Broadbent
“Simon Sechter’s Fundamental-
A new book by Frederick Stocken
What manner of musical knowledge did Bruckner develop from his time with Simon Sechter?
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