Sunday, August 21, 2016

Anton Bruckner (1824-1896)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OfsgZm3YojY

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anton_Bruckner

On the other hand, Bruckner was greatly admired by subsequent composers including his friend Gustav Mahler, who described him as "half simpleton, half God". (wikipedia)

A biographer of Bruckner (Grebe, 1972) states that “Life and work are completely different … life does not tell us anything about the work and the work does not tell us anything about life” (p. 7). (Lang, H., Brunnhuber, S. and Wagner, R.F. (2003). The So-Called Zollikon Seminars. J. Am. Acad. Psychoanal. Dyn. Psychiatr., 31:349-359) (p. 350)

“The Good Lord within me knows which music I have to write” (Muller, 1996, p. 440). (ibid, p. 350)