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Publisher:
Cambridge University Press
Online publication date:
September 2011
Print publication year:
2004
Online ISBN:
9781139000970

Book description

This Companion provides an overview of the composer Anton Bruckner (1824–1896). Sixteen chapters by leading scholars investigate aspects of his life and works and consider the manner in which critical appreciation has changed in the twentieth century. The first section deals with Bruckner's Austrian background, investigating the historical circumstances in which he worked, his upbringing in Upper Austria, and his career in Vienna. A number of misunderstandings are dealt with in the light of recent research. The remainder of the book covers Bruckner's career as church musician and symphonist, with a chapter on the neglected secular vocal music. Religious, aesthetic, formal, harmonic, and instrumental aspects are considered, while one chapter confronts the problem of the editions of the symphonies. Two concluding chapters discuss the symphonies in performance, and the history of Bruckner-reception with particular reference to German Nationalism, the Third Reich and the appropriation of Bruckner by the Nazis.

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Contents

  • Frontmatter
    pp i-xxii
  • Part I - Background
  • 1 - Introduction: a Catholic composer in the age of Bismarck
    pp 1-14
  • 2 - Musical life in Upper Austria in the mid-nineteenth century
    pp 15-25
  • 3 - Bruckner in Vienna
    pp 26-38
  • Part II - Choral music
  • 4 - Bruckner's large sacred compositions
    pp 39-53
  • 5 - Bruckner and the motet
    pp 54-63
  • 6 - Bruckner and secular vocal music
    pp 64-76
  • Part III - The symphonist
  • 7 - The Brucknerian symphony: an overview
    pp 77-91
  • 8 - Bruckner's symphonies – a reinterpretation: the dialectic of darkness and light
    pp 92-107
  • 9 - Programme symphony and absolute music
    pp 108-120
  • 10 - Bruckner editions: the revolution revisited
    pp 121-137
  • 11 - Bruckner and the symphony orchestra
    pp 138-169
  • 13 - Formal process as spiritual progress: the symphonic slow movements
    pp 190-204
  • 14 - Bruckner and harmony
    pp 205-228
  • Part IV - Reception
  • 15 - Conductors and Bruckner
    pp 229-243
  • 16 - The musical image of Bruckner
    pp 244-260
  • Notes
    pp 261-288
  • Select bibliography
    pp 289-297
  • Index
    pp 298-303

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