The Austrian composer Joseph Anton Bruckner (1824-1896) is best known for his nine monumental symphonies and his religious compositions. Anton Bruckner was born on Sept. 4, 1824, at Ansfelden in Upper Austria. He was the first of 11 children of the...

In Anton Bruckner Chronologie Franz Scheder has attempted, quite successfully, to assemble an exhaustive chronological accounting of Anton Bruckner's life. Beginning even before Bruckner's birth (two pages are devoted to Bruckner's forebears) and continuing through the aftermath of his death, the chronology lists...

By Benjamin M. Korstvedt. (Cambridge Music Handbooks.) Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000. [xi, 133 p. ISBN 0-521-63226-9 (cloth); 0-521-63537-3 (pbk.). $49.95 (cloth); $16.95 (pbk.).] In this recent addition to the Cambridge Music Handbooks series, Benjamin M. Korstvedt proposes a reexamination of the...

Beethoven, Brahms, Mozart ... Korngold?Countless millions have at least heard of the classical masters associated with Vienna. Not only the titanic trio of Ludwig van Beethoven, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Johannes Brahms viewed the city at some point as their musical home.So did Anton Bruckner,...

In March 1978, when the country was still in the throes of discomania, New Yorker classical music critic Alex Ross bought his first LP: a recording of the Austrian composer Anton Bruckner’s 9th Symphony. He was 10 years old. Given that Mr. Ross didn’t discover...