Anton Bruckner's symphonies are a great achievement of the Romantic era. To Bruckner, music was a celebration of symmetry; his symphonies are like works of Gothic architecture in their grandeur, and in them he captured the cultural atmosphere of the Austro-Hungarian empire. Bruckner was desperately unsure of his abilities and revised his works repeatedly; his lack of social graces hampered him in the pursuit of respect and honor; his romantic life was a series of embarrassments. But the center of his life was a deep ...
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Anton Bruckner's symphonies are a great achievement of the Romantic era. To Bruckner, music was a celebration of symmetry; his symphonies are like works of Gothic architecture in their grandeur, and in them he captured the cultural atmosphere of the Austro-Hungarian empire. Bruckner was desperately unsure of his abilities and revised his works repeatedly; his lack of social graces hampered him in the pursuit of respect and honor; his romantic life was a series of embarrassments. But the center of his life was a deep religious faith, reflected in his music and its range of emotions from terror to ecstasy. -- Includes Bruckner's complete life story and commentary on his works -- The ideal single-volume introduction to Bruckner
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Used-Good. Good ex-lib hardback in dust jacket. 1997 1st American edition with B&W illustrations; tightly bound in red boards with black cloth spine and gilt lettering to spine. Dust jacket not price-clipped and protected by removable clear sleeve. Ex-school library copy with usual stamps, labels, markings etc; otherwise, a clean, tidy copy.
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