![]() Florian, trained as a school assistant, working in this capacity in many towns throughout Upper Austria ![]() © Johannes Leopold Mayer, ORF - Radio Österreich 1 In keeping with this, he later requests that his honorary doctoral degree from the University of Vienna state that he received the honor as a “symphonist.” But he realizes that this is the calling conferred upon him by God, his true vocation. He doesn’t write his first symphony until the age of 41. He also visited Wagner in Bayreuth, which he particularly enjoyed, and played the organ there at Liszt’s funeral. He travelled a fair amount, celebrating triumphs as an organist in France and England, seeing and admiring the Swiss Alps, and visiting the major German cities to attend performances of his works. Florian has already become his “world” - to which the renowned court organist in Vienna and respected composer would always return throughout his life, and where he would later die. Florian and in Linz, where there was also plenty of music-making, then works as a school assistant in small villages like Windhaag and Kronstorf. With the goal of becoming a teacher like his father, he receives the necessary training at the Stift St. And this picture would be accurate, as this is what the composer related as an old man. We can picture to ourselves how the child had his first experience with great music here, how he heard more during the course of his parents’ duties, and how he expressed his astonishment to them. The feeling of confinement inside may seem oppressive, but there are wide expanses as well: the sweeping landscape surrounding it, in addition to wide expanses of the spirit - as a schoolmaster, one of Anton’s father’s duties is to play the organ and lead the church choir, where his mother Theresia sings. This is the setting where many of Austria’s important personalities (including Franz Schubert alongside Anton Bruckner) came into the world - in a schoolhouse, as the children of teachers. But just as his symphonies don’t reveal all their treasures upon first hearing, we also need to look down more closely from atop the Kirchberg and allow our gaze to rest upon the schoolhouse below. On the other hand, Bruckner was greatly admired by subsequent composers including his friend Gustav Mahler, who described him as "half simpleton, half God".The towering symphonic mountain ranges that rise up before us in his music are quite a change from the hills of his childhood - like Kirchberg mountain in his birthplace of Ansfelden in Upper Austria, located between the provincial capital of Linz and the Stift St. His works, the symphonies in particular, had detractors, most notably the influential Austrian critic Eduard Hanslick, and other supporters of Johannes Brahms who pointed to their large size and use of repetition, as well as to Bruckner's propensity for revising many of his works, often with the assistance of colleagues, and his apparent indecision about which versions he preferred. This apparent dichotomy between Bruckner the man and Bruckner the composer hampers efforts to describe his life in a way that gives a straightforward context for his music. Unlike other musical radicals such as Richard Wagner and Hugo Wolf who fit the enfant terrible mould, Bruckner showed extreme humility before other musicians, Wagner in particular. Bruckner's compositions helped to define contemporary musical radicalism, owing to their dissonances, unprepared modulations, and roving harmonies. The first are considered emblematic of the final stage of Austro-German Romanticism because of their rich harmonic language, strongly polyphonic character, and considerable length. Josef Anton Bruckner (4 September 1824 – 11 October 1896) was an Austrian composer known for his symphonies, masses, and motets.
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