Release Date: 12 January 1999
Label: Naxos - Nxc / Naxos Classics
Packaging Type: Jewel Case
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 730099595629
Genres: Classical
Composer/Series: BRUCKNER
Description
Anton Bruckner (1824 - 1896)MotetsAnton Bruckner was born in Ansfelden, near Linz, in 1824, the son of theschoolmaster and organist and descendant of a longer line of Austrianschoolmasters. He was originally destined by his father for the same profession,of which music was a concomitant part, and on the death of his father he wasadmitted as a student to the Augustinian monastery of St. Florian as achorister. Three years later, in 1840, he went to Linz to train as a teacher,and the following year became assistant schoolmaster in the remoter village ofWindhaag, near Freistadt, and later in the Styrian village of Kronstorf, beforea vacancy was found for him at St. Florian in 1845. Six years later he wasappointed organist there.During childhood and early manhood Bruckner's exposure to the wider world ofmusic had been gradual. St. Florian certainly presented opportunities to hearthe great liturgical works of earlier composers, while Linz later offered astill more extended secular and religious repertoire. His own early compositionswere largely for the church and his obvious abilities and ambitions led him, onthe advice of a friend, to seek lessons in Vienna from Sechter, on whose advicehe left St. Florian, becoming in 1855 organist at the cathedral in Linz.In 1861 Bruckner completed his studies in counterpoint with Sechter and beganwork with another teacher, the Linz cellist and conductor Otto Kitzler, for helpin mastering orchestration and symphonic form. It was now, stimulated by aperformance in Linz of Wagner's Tannhauser, that he turned his attentionseriously to the composition of symphonies, although he was later to reject theD minor work of 1864 as a mere nothing, a judgement reflected in its presentnumbering as Symphony No.0, Die Nullte. In the same years he began tomake a wider impression with his settings of the Mass and in 1868, with somereluctance due to his natural diffidence and the relatively poor salary offered,he moved to Vienna to teach at the Conservatory.Bruckner's remaining years were spent largely in Vienna and were notwithout troubles and disappointments. His admiration for Wagner aroused theantipathy of that composer's enemies, notably of the critic Hanslick, thechampion of Brahms, who proved an obstacle for many years to Bruckner'sappointment to the University of Vienna, although Brahms himself showed hisapproval of the music of Bruckner that he heard. The Vienna PhilharmonicOrchestra refused at first to play his symphonies, although the opposition ofthe musicians was eventually overcome. These setbacks led Bruckner, never toocertain of himself, to undertake revisions of his work, so that the symphoniesnow exist in several versions. He died in 1896 before he could complete the lastmovement of his Ninth Symphony.A man of humble origin, Bruckner retained his modest diffidence to the end ofhis life, fortified by a strong and traditional religious faith. As an organisthe excelled in improvisation and this ability clearly had some e
Tracklisting
Dariia Lytvishko
Baltimore Symphony Orchestra; Marin Alsop
Alice Di Piazza; Basel Sinfonietta; NDR Bigband; Titus Engel
Anna Alas i Jove; Miquel Villalba
David Childs; Black Dyke Band; Nicholas Childs
Yang/Schwabe/Dt So/Wit
Wolf Harden
Wolf Harden
