The New Bruckner: Compositional Development and the Dynamics of Revision

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Contents: Preface
Introduction
Tradition and innovation
Masses and early symphonies
The emergence of the 'Bruckner symphony'
Consolidation and revision
Four masterpieces
Bruckner and his disciples
The 8th symphony
The final decade
Anomalies of history
Appendix
Select bibliography
Index

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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 argues that Bruckner's music became more organic and less schematic as the result of his revisions. The book will be essential reading for those studying Bruckner's compositions, the complex history of their reception, and late Romantic music in general.

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Gault is an accomplished writer. His prose is clear and pleasing, and it faces and subdues difficult concepts without misrepresenting their difficulty. In short, this is a superb book. If you want to have a deep understanding of Bruckner's editions and the processes that brought them into existence, this is the book to have

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