Anton Bruckner (1824-96)
Composer
The Austrian composer Anton Bruckner is a complex and sometimes contradictory figure. Although his music is as richly Romantic as that of Wagner - and the two were firm and lifelong friends - in personality they could not have been more different, with Bruckner's mild-mannered, simple and self-effacing nature marking him out as unusual among composers.
A devout Roman Catholic all his life, Bruckner initially found work as a church organist, and although he wrote little organ music, the influence of this experience on his compositional style is clear to the ear, with sudden changes of instrumentation in his orchestral works obviously derived from manual changes at the organ.
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Recording of the Week, Andris Nelsons and the Gewandhausorchester perform Bruckner
20th April 2018
James enjoys magnificently sonorous performances of two symphonies by Anton Bruckner.
Recording of the Week, Andris Nelsons conducts Bruckner's Third Symphony
5th May 2017
James listens to Andris Nelsons' first recording with the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra - a stirring account of Bruckner's Third Symphony.
Popular Works: Bruckner
- Aequalis No. 1 for three trombones (10)
- Aequalis No. 2 for three trombones (10)
- Ave Maria (22)
- Ave Maria (1856), WAB 5 (15)
- Ave Maria (1861), WAB 6 (83)
- Christus factus est (18)
- Christus factus est, WAB 11 (43)
- Ecce sacerdos magnus (23)
- Intermezzo for String Quintet in D minor (12)
- Inveni David, offertorium for male chorus & 4 trombones,WAB 19 (13)
- Locus iste (17)
- Locus iste, WAB 23 (65)
- Mass No. 1 in D Minor (12)
- Mass No. 2 in E minor (21)
- Mass No. 3 in F minor (29)
- Offertorium: Afferentur regi (20)
- Os justi meditabitur sapientiam (59)
- Overture in G minor (10)
- Pange lingua (22)
- Psalm 150, for Soprano, Chorus and Orchestra (15)
- String Quartet in C minor, WAB111 (8)
- String Quintet in F major (28)
- Symphonies 0-9 (17)
- Symphonies 1-9 (38)
- Symphony No. 00 in F minor 'Study Symphony' (14)
- Symphony No. 0 in D minor 'Nullte' (32)
- Symphony No. 1 in C minor (79)
- Symphony No. 2 in C minor (75)
- Symphony No. 3 in D minor ‘Wagner Symphony' (131)
- Symphony No. 4 in Eb Major 'Romantic' (238)
- Symphony No. 5 in B flat major (166)
- Symphony No. 6 in A major (113)
- Symphony No. 7 in E Major (224)
- Symphony No. 8 in C minor (213)
- Symphony No. 9 in D Minor (221)
- Tantum ergo in D major, WAB 42 (8)
- Te Deum in C major, WAB 45 (58)
- Tota pulchra es, antiphon, WAB 46 (28)
- Vexilla regis (24)
- Virga Jesse floruit (53)
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