Anton Bruckner : the man and the work / Constantin Floros ; translated by Ernest Bernhardt-Kabisch.
| Author/creator |
Floros, Constantin author. |
| Other author/creator | Bernhardt-Kabisch, Ernest, 1934- translator. |
| Format | Book and Print |
| Edition | 2. revised edition. |
| Publication Info | Frankfurt am Main : PL Academic Research, [2015] |
| Description | vi, 234 pages ; 22 cm |
| Subject(s) |
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| Uniform title | Anton Bruckner. English |
| Contents | Part one. A character portrait. Who was Bruckner? -- Authoritarianism and self-assurance -- The world as "bad lot" -- Neurosis -- Libido -- Emotionality -- The "passionate urge to compose" -- Securing an income -- Persecution mania -- Worries about the success of the work -- Interest in the exceptional -- "Sympathy with death" -- Religiosity -- Part two. Sacred music. Personality and oeuvre -- Music as religious confession -- A new, dramatic conception of the mass -- The credo settings -- Religious tone symbolism -- Jubilant and devotional music -- "Let me not be confounded in eternity" - the Te Deum -- Music as song of praise -- Part three. The symphonies. The fiction of "Absolute music" -- Originality and modernity -- Matters of style -- How Bruckner came to the symphony -- Autobiographic elements in the Second and Third Symphony -- The allegiance to Richard Wagner -- The triad of the middle symphonies -- The Seventh - a second "Wagner symphony" -- Secular and religious -- Imaginations - Bruckner's associations in the Eighth -- The Ninth - Bruckner's "farewell to life" -- Reflections on the Bruckner interpretation - Günter Wand, Eugen Jochum and Sergiu Celibidache -- The progressive -- Afterword -- Appendix. |
| Abstract | While unappreciated and controversial during most of his life, Anton Bruckner is today regarded as the greatest symphonist between Beethoven and Gustav Mahler - in terms of originality, boldness and monumentality of his music. The image of Bruckner the man, however, is still extreme instance of the tenacious power of prejudice. No less a figure than Gustav Mahler coined the aperçu about Bruckner being "a simpleton - half genius, half imbecile." The author is out to correct that misperception. His thesis in this study is that contrary to what has hitherto been asserted, there is an intimate relation between Bruckner's sacred music and his symphonies from multiple perspectives: biographical data, sources and influences, the psychology of creation, musical structure, contemporary testimony and reception history. Additional chapters assess important Bruckner recordings and interpreters and the progressiveness of his music. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| LCCN | 2014042563 |
| ISBN | 9783631662038 |
| ISBN | 3631662033 |
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| Music | Music Stacks | ML410.B88 F613 2015 | ✔ Available | Place Hold |