Background
Anton Bruckner was born in Ansfelden (then a village, now a suburb of Linz) on 4 September 1824. Bruckner learned to play the organ early as a child.
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Remy Ballot and the symphonies of Anton Bruckner, enacted at Bruckner's place of work, the basilica of St. Florian in Upper Austria an extraordinary combination of artistic abundance which becomes manifest for the fourth time in a CD release with the Gramola label. This time the annual festival Brucknertage centered around the Sixth, and once again the musical youth of the Upper Austrian Symphonic Youth Orchestra enjoyed the great honor to give a celebrated performance in this one-of-a-kind setting. The juvenile vigor and professionalism joined by the intuition of Remy Ballot provide for some goose bumps and append another worthy opus to this series which has been critically acclaimed and honored with numerous prestigious international awards.
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The complete Bruckner Cycle from one of the greatest Bruckner conductors of our time, Daniel Barenboim; and his Staatskapelle Berlin. First CD release of Barenboims third complete Bruckner Cycle (recorded live in Vienna and Berlin). New booklet notes on the repertoire, and on Barenboims and the Staatskapelle Berlins congenial work together Superhuman breadth and spaciousness and tenderness, the like of which I think Ive never heard. The music emerges into a realm of perfect peace, after which theres nothing more to be said. Its an extraordinary feeling, probably unique in music, which Barenboim and the orchestra captured with complete understanding. - TELEGRAPH PRESENTATION PACKAGING: Capbox 36-page BOOKLET with new liner notes (English, German, French) by Bruckner expert, Detlef Giese Repertoire listing: Anton Bruckner: The Complete Symphonies CD 1: Symphony No. 1 In C Minor CD 2: Symphony No. 2 in C Minor CD 3: Symphony No. 3 in D Minor CD 4: Symphony No. 4 in E flat Major Romantic CD 5: Symphony No. 5 in B Flat Major CD 6: Symphony No. 6 in A Major CD 7: Symphony No. 7 in E Major CD 8: Symphony No. 8 in C Minor CD 9: Symphony No. 9 In D Minor Nos. 1-3: Recorded live in Vienna 2012 Nos. 4-9: Recorded live in Berlin 2010
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Anton Bruckner was born in Ansfelden (then a village, now a suburb of Linz) on 4 September 1824. Bruckner learned to play the organ early as a child.
Anton entered school when he was six, proved to be a hard-working student, and was promoted to upper class early. While studying, Bruckner also helped his father in teaching the other children. After Bruckner received his confirmation in 1833, Bruckner's father sent him to another school in Hörsching. The schoolmaster, Johann Baptist Weiß, was a music enthusiast and respected organist. Here, Bruckner completed his school education and learned to play the organ excellently.
Around 1835 Bruckner wrote his first composition, a Pange lingua. Bruckner returned to Sankt Florian in 1845, where, for the next 10 years, he would work as a teacher and an organist. In May 1845, Bruckner passed an examination, which allowed him to begin work as an assistant teacher in one of the village schools of Sankt Florian. In 1848 Bruckner was appointed an organist in Sankt Florian and in 1851 this was made a regular position.
He successfully competed for the organists for Linz Cathedral in 1855.
In 1867 he succeeded his former master of counterpoint, Sechter, as organist of the Hofkapelle in Vienna, and also became the professor in the Conservatorium.
His permanent reputation, however, rests on his compositions, especially his nine symphonies.
Bruckner composed also five name-day cantatas, as well as two patriotic cantatas, Germanenzug and Helgoland, on texts by August Silberstein. Germanenzug (WAB 70), composed in 1863–1864, was Bruckner's first published work.
Bruckner was a renowned organist at the St Florian's Priory, where he improvised frequently. Those improvisations were usually not transcribed so that only a few of his work for organ has survived.
He most likely retired from his position at the University of Vienna in 1892, at the age of 68. He wrote a great deal of music that he used to help teach his students.
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Bruckner was a devoutly religious man, and composed numerous sacred works. He wrote a Te Deum, five psalm settings (including Psalm 150 in the 1890s), a Festive cantata, a Magnificat, about forty motets (among them eight settings of Tantum ergo, and three settings of both Christus factus est and Ave Maria), and at least seven Masses.
Bruckner was a lifelong bachelor who made numerous unsuccessful marriage proposals to teenage girls.