What nationality was the composer Anton Bruckner?
"Tota pulchra es (Bruckner) Tota pulchra es, WAB 46, is a sacred motet by the Austrian composer Anton Bruckner. The work, which was composed on 30 March 1878 between symphonies 5 and 6, is scoring the Latin antiphon Tota pulchra es. It was performed on 4 June 1878 in the Votive Chapel of the new cathedral of the Immaculate Conception to commemorate the 25th anniversary of Franz-Josef Rudigier as bishop of Linz. The manuscript is archived at the ""Österreichische Nationalbibliothek"". The ' (dedicated copy) is stored in the archive of the new cathedral. The motet was edited, together with the"
"which versions he preferred. On the other hand, Bruckner was greatly admired by subsequent composers including his friend Gustav Mahler. Anton Bruckner was born in Ansfelden (then a village, now a suburb of Linz) on 4 September 1824. The ancestors of Bruckner's family were farmers and craftsmen; their history can be traced as far back as the 16th century. They lived near a bridge south of Sindelburg, which led to their being called ""Pruckhner an der Pruckhen"" (bridgers on the bridge). Bruckner's grandfather was appointed schoolmaster in Ansfelden in 1776; this position was inherited by Bruckner's father, Anton Bruckner Sr.,"
"and Beethoven. Hans-Hubert Schonzeler died in England in 1997. Hans-Hubert Schönzeler Hans-Hubert Schönzeler (22 June 192530 April 1997) was a German-born Australian-naturalised English-resident composer, conductor and musicologist who became an authority on Anton Bruckner and Antonín Dvořák. He was born in Leipzig, an only child, and studied the violin from the age of five. Although his family was not Jewish, he was sent to Brussels so as to avoid contact with the Hitler Youth. In 1939 his family emigrated to Australia where, on the outbreak of the Second World War, his father was interned as an enemy alien. Hans-Hubert went"
"Otto Kitzler Otto Kitzler (1834–1915) was a German cellist and conductor. He is noted for being the form and orchestration teacher of the Austrian composer Anton Bruckner from 1861 to 1863. Kitzler led the Linz theatre orchestra and was responsible for introducing Bruckner to the music of Richard Wagner as well as other 19th-century composers. The sketches and compositions that Bruckner prepared for Kitzler are found in the Kitzler-Studienbuch, which ""due to its inaccessibility...has achieved little notoriety in the musical world"". Kitzler wrote a funeral music ""In Memorial of Anton Bruckner"" (Trauermusik ""Dem Andenken Anton Bruckners""), re-orchestrated by Gerd Schaller"
"Hans-Hubert Schönzeler Hans-Hubert Schönzeler (22 June 192530 April 1997) was a German-born Australian-naturalised English-resident composer, conductor and musicologist who became an authority on Anton Bruckner and Antonín Dvořák. He was born in Leipzig, an only child, and studied the violin from the age of five. Although his family was not Jewish, he was sent to Brussels so as to avoid contact with the Hitler Youth. In 1939 his family emigrated to Australia where, on the outbreak of the Second World War, his father was interned as an enemy alien. Hans-Hubert went to Sydney Boys High School, but in 1941 he"
"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 refined his skills as an organist. Around 1835 Bruckner wrote his first composition, a ""Pange lingua"" – one of the compositions which he revised at the end of his life. When his father became ill, Anton returned to Ansfelden to help him in his work. Bruckner's father died in 1837, when Bruckner was 13 years"
"(2012) and recorded with the Philharmonie Festiva for Profil Edition Günter Hänssler. Otto Kitzler Otto Kitzler (1834–1915) was a German cellist and conductor. He is noted for being the form and orchestration teacher of the Austrian composer Anton Bruckner from 1861 to 1863. Kitzler led the Linz theatre orchestra and was responsible for introducing Bruckner to the music of Richard Wagner as well as other 19th-century composers. The sketches and compositions that Bruckner prepared for Kitzler are found in the Kitzler-Studienbuch, which ""due to its inaccessibility...has achieved little notoriety in the musical world"". Kitzler wrote a funeral music ""In Memorial"
"Germanenzug Germanenzug (WAB 70) is a secular, patriotic cantata composed in 1863–1864 by Anton Bruckner on a text by August Silberstein. After the completion of Psalm 112, Bruckner composed ""Germanenzug"" in July 1863. It is the first major example of occasional pieces set to secular texts Bruckner would write throughout his career for the ""Liedertafeln"". Bruckner entered it for a competition at the first , scheduled for August 1864 in Linz. Bruckner's original intention was to use the ""Zigeuner-Waldlied"", a lost work (WAB 135), as basis for this entry, but after correspondence with Silberstein and his close friend Rudolf Weinwurm,"
"Helgoland (Bruckner) Helgoland, WAB 71, is a secular, patriotic cantata for male choir and orchestra, composed by Anton Bruckner in 1893. Since Bruckner did not complete the 9th symphony, ""Helgoland"" is his last complete work. One year earlier, Bruckner had already composed another, shorter patriotic work, ""Der deutsche Gesang"" (WAB 63), that was premiered at the ""First German Academic Song Festival"" in Salzburg in June 1892. ""Helgoland"" was composed in April 1893 for the Men's Choir of Vienna to celebrate its 50th birthday. The text was written by August Silberstein, who had already provided poems, which Bruckner set to music"
"Anton Hegner Anton Hegner (2 March 1861 - 4 December 1915) was a Danish cellist and composer. Hegner was born in Denmark and started his musical career as a violinist, but changed to the cello as he was educated at the Royal Danish Academy of Music, from where he graduated in 1879. He moved to New york in 1893. He was often back in Europe, however, often playing at the various courts and concert halls around the continent. During visits to the Danish court he sometimes played together with members of the Danish, Russian and Brritish royal families. He was"
"district Haid. Seats in the council, Elections 2015: Ansfelden Ansfelden is a town in the Austrian state of Upper Austria. The rivers Traun and Krems run through the municipality. The town is perhaps best known for being the birthplace of the composer and organist Anton Bruckner. Ansfelden has two museums, the Anton Bruckner Museum and a museum of musical instruments. In the town's coat of arms, granted on October 28, 1985, the wavy stripe represents the rivers, the organ pipes, the organist and composer Anton Bruckner, and the cog-wheel, the town's paper-mills and other older industries. Between 1945 and 1964"
"by August Silberstein. ""Germanenzug"" (WAB 70), composed in 1863–1864, was Bruckner's first published work. ""Helgoland"" (WAB 71), for TTBB men's choir and large orchestra, was composed in 1893 and was Bruckner's last completed composition and the only secular vocal work that he thought worthy enough to bequeath to the Austrian National Library. During his apprenticeship with Otto Kitzler, Bruckner composed three short orchestral pieces and a March in D minor as orchestration exercises. At that time he also wrote an Overture in G minor. These works, which are occasionally included in recordings of the symphonies, show already hints of Bruckner's"
"(1773), with a German libretto by Christoph Martin Wieland, among the early German-language operas. Anton Schweitzer Anton Schweitzer (6 June 1735 in Coburg – 23 November 1787 in Gotha) was a German composer of operas, who was affiliated with Abel Seyler's theatrical company. He was a child prodigy who obtained the patronage of the duke of Saxe-Hildburghausen, who sent him to study with Jakob Friedrich Kleinknecht at the court of Bayreuth in 1758, and then sent him to Italy (1764–66), and made him Kapellmeister. With the dismissal of the court orchestra at Hildburghausen, he was enabled to tour Europe with"
"other engagements with British orchestras. He subsequently worked with a number of orchestras throughout Europe and in America, and eventually took joint British citizenship. From 1974 to 1990, he was the principal conductor of the hr-Sinfonieorchester in Frankfurt. With them, he was the first to record the original versions of several of Anton Bruckner's symphonies, for which he won the ""Jahrespreis der deutschen Schallplatten-Kritik"". He also recorded a complete cycle of the symphonies of Gustav Mahler and Dmitri Shostakovich. From 1984 to 1989, he was chief conductor at La Fenice in Venice. From 2003 to 2011, he conducted a series"
"strings and continuo opus 3 no. 4 and a ""Sinfonia in g-Moll"" for strings and continuo are preserved and still performed. Anton Wilhelm Solnitz Anton Wilhelm Solnitz (or ""Sollnitz"", c.1708–1752) was a German-Bohemian composer. Like his compatriot Johann Andreas Kauchlitz (a few decades later), his entire musically significant life was in the rich Dutch Republic, which attracted musicians from various European countries, even the great Italian Pietro Antonio Locatelli. He died in Leiden, a Dutch university city. An allegorical portrait of the composer by Herman van der Mijn from 1743, in oil on panel, (sized 7.4 x 5.9 inch (18.8"
"this setting: Volkslied, WAB 94 The (""National hymn""), WAB 94, is a patriotic song composed by Anton Bruckner in 1882 for a competition for a (Hymn for the German People in Austria). On 16 October 1881, the ""Deutsche Zeitung"" invited submissions for a text (for a singable national hymn). From 1,750 texts entered, Josef Winter's was awarded the first prize. On 1 January 1882 a second invitation appeared for a (Hymn for the German People in Austria), for men's choir as well as for voice and piano. Bruckner, as one of the 1,320 participants, sent a sample of both settings."
"Arthur Bruhns Arthur Bruhns (born George Frederick William Bruhns; 10 April 1874 – 1928) was a composer, pianist, and organist. Bruhns was born in Silesia, Germany. He studied at the Royal Conservatory of Dresden under Felix Draeseke and Hugo Riemann and later studied in Paris with Camille Saint-Saëns. Bruhns worked as a conductor of grand opera in cities throughout Europe. He also worked as an accompanist in concert and recital tours with singers throughout Europe and the United States. He composed the music to the theatrical work ""Ib and Little Christina""—with a libretto by Basil Hood—which was first produced at"
"Anton Schweitzer Anton Schweitzer (6 June 1735 in Coburg – 23 November 1787 in Gotha) was a German composer of operas, who was affiliated with Abel Seyler's theatrical company. He was a child prodigy who obtained the patronage of the duke of Saxe-Hildburghausen, who sent him to study with Jakob Friedrich Kleinknecht at the court of Bayreuth in 1758, and then sent him to Italy (1764–66), and made him Kapellmeister. With the dismissal of the court orchestra at Hildburghausen, he was enabled to tour Europe with the Seyler theatrical company from 1769. His most notable work is the opera ""Alceste"""
"Anton Rovner Anton Rovner (; born 28 June 1970) is a Russian-American composer, music critic and theorist. Rovner comes from a Jewish intellectual family. His father is the famous Russian philosopher Arkady Rovner. 1974 they emigrated to the United States. He studied piano at the Manhattan School of Music, composition with Andrew Thomas and Milton Babbitt at the Juilliard School and with Charles Wuorinen at the Rutgers University. Rovner earned a Ph.D. He also was a student of Eric Ewazen in Estherwood, New York and of Joseph Dubiel at Columbia University. From 1989 to 1990 he was a fellowship student"
"Symphony in F minor (Bruckner) Anton Bruckner's Symphony in F minor, WAB 99, was written in 1863, at the end of his study period in form and orchestration by Otto Kitzler. Bruckner gave the score of the Symphony in F minor to his friend Cyrill Hynais, together with that of the Four Orchestral Pieces of 1862 and the Overture in G minor. The symphony, which was not played in Bruckner's lifetime, received its first full performance at Klosterneuburg on 12 October 1924. It is available in only one edition, by Leopold Nowak published in 1973. The work is scored for"
"Symphony No. 8 (Bruckner) Anton Bruckner's Symphony No. 8 in C minor is the last symphony the composer completed. It exists in two major versions of 1887 and 1890. It was premiered under conductor Hans Richter in 1892 in Vienna. It is dedicated to the Emperor Franz Joseph I of Austria. This symphony is sometimes nicknamed ""The Apocalyptic"", but this was not a name Bruckner gave to the work himself. Bruckner began work on the Eighth Symphony in July 1884. Working mainly during the summer vacations from his duties at the University of Vienna and the Vienna Conservatory, the composer"
"""Der Bergmannsgruß"" enjoyed the greatest popularity. He also wrote a notable piece for 13 Russian horns. August Ferdinand Anacker August Ferdinand Anacker (17 October 1790 – 21 August 1854) was a German composer. Anacker, the son of a poor shoemaker, was born in Freiberg, Saxony. He attended the Gymnasium in Freiberg before going to Leipzig in 1813 to study music with Johann Gottfried Schicht and Friedrich Schneider. In 1822, he became a cantor and conductor in his hometown, where he distinguished himself as a teacher and composer, establishing and managing a number of musical institutions in a career spanning several"
"work, presumably because of the text, a poem with German patriotic content, but also the high requirements, i.e., a large symphonic orchestra and a professional men's choir. Many noted Brucknerian conductors have neglected to record the work, although Daniel Barenboim has done it twice, at the time of his playing the symphonies of Bruckner with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and with the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra. There are four commercial recordings of the work: Helgoland (Bruckner) Helgoland, WAB 71, is a secular, patriotic cantata for male choir and orchestra, composed by Anton Bruckner in 1893. Since Bruckner did not complete the"
"Mozart wrote his Symphony No. 36 (1783) in Linz for a concert to be given there, and the work is known today as the ""Linz Symphony"". He reportedly also composed his Piano Sonata 13 in B flat while in Linz, although it was published in Vienna. The first version of Anton Bruckner's Symphony No. 1 in C minor is known as the Linz version. Anton Bruckner was born in Ansfelden near Linz and spent several years working as a conductor and organist in Linz, where he also started to compose. The first version of Anton Bruckner's Symphony No. 1 in"
"Anton Stadler Anton Paul Stadler (28 June 1753 in Bruck an der Leitha – 15 June 1812 in Vienna) was an Austrian clarinet and basset horn player for whom Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart wrote, amongst others, both his Clarinet Quintet (K 581) and Clarinet Concerto (K 622). Stadler's name is inextricably linked to Mozart's compositions for these two instruments. Stadler was born in 1753 in a small town near Vienna; in 1756 his family moved into the city where his brother Johann was born. Even though both became famous as clarinet and basset horn players, the ""Journal des Luxus und der"
"both musical unity and variety. The music is of substantial interest, because it contains an attractive blend of progressive and textural variety. There is a single recording of ""Laßt Jubeltöne laut erklingen"": Laßt Jubeltöne laut erklingen Bruckner composed this ""cantata"" on a text of Hillischer in 1854. The piece was intended to be sung by the ""Frohsinn"" for the Joyous Entry of Elisabeth of Bavaria, then the bride of Franz Joseph of Austria, known as Sisi, in Linz on 22 April 1854. However, Bruckner's composition was not performed, but instead a transcription of the Bavarian national hymn with the same"
"Singspiel, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Johann Sebastian Bach. Robert Haas (musicologist) Robert Maria Haas (August 15, 1886, Prague – October 4, 1960, Vienna) Austrian musicologist. At the beginning of his career with the Austrian national library, Haas was mostly interested in Baroque and Classical music. Later on, he was engaged by the newly formed International Bruckner Society to work on a complete edition of Anton Bruckner's Symphonies and Masses based on the original manuscripts bequeathed by the composer to the Vienna library. Haas's editions of Bruckner are controversial. Writing for the Cambridge University Press, Benjamin Korstvedt charges that in the"
"Symphony No. 2 (Bruckner) Anton Bruckner’s Symphony No. 2 in C minor, sometimes known as the “Symphony of Pauses,” was completed in 1872. It was actually the fourth symphony composed by Bruckner, after the Study Symphony in F minor (1863), the Symphony No. 1 in C minor (1866), and the Symphony ""No. 0"" in D minor (1869). In the fall of 1871, after having become established in Vienna, Anton Bruckner embarked on a new symphonic project, his fourth, which in less than a year would result in a completed and copied score of nearly 2000 bars. The Symphony No. 2,"
"choralwork ""Helgoland"" (1893). Two recordings: A single recording: Symphonic Prelude (Bruckner) The (Symphonic Prelude) in C minor is an orchestral composition by Anton Bruckner or his entourage, composed in 1876. The work was discovered shortly after World War II. Heinrich Tschuppik, who found the orchestral score of the work in the estate of Bruckner's pupil , attributed the authorship to Bruckner. Thirty years later, Mahler scholar Paul Banks, who knew only a four-stave reduction of the work, attributed the work to Mahler and requested its orchestration. While the exact circumstances of the composition of this Prelude have not been determined,"
"of the ""Allgemeine Deutsche Musikverein"" (""ADMV"")(q.v.), the 'United German Musical Union', which espoused Liszt's musical enthusiasms. Though Austrian composer Anton Bruckner took no part in the debate between conservatives and progressives, his symphonies were seen as part of the latter due to their advanced harmony, massive orchestration and extended time-scale. His adulation for Wagner, which included the dedication of his Third Symphony and the quotes from Wagner's operas incorporated into that work, helped cement this impression. A central point of disagreement between these two groups of musicians was between traditional and new musical forms. This was an outgrowth of the"
"Symphony No. 5 (Bruckner) The Symphony No. 5 in B-flat major (WAB 105) of Anton Bruckner was written in 1875–1876, with minor changes over the next two years. It came at a time of trouble and disillusion for the composer: a lawsuit, from which he was exonerated, and a reduction in salary. Dedicated to Karl von Stremayr, education minister in the Austro-Hungarian Empire, the symphony has at times been nicknamed the “Tragic,” the “Church of Faith” or the “Pizzicato”; Bruckner himself referred to it as the “Fantastic” without applying this or any other name formally. The Fifth was first performed"
"about 100,000. The classic Cloud of Sound is the opening concert of the Brucknerfest, performed without visualization. The children's Cloud of Sound, an afternoon event since 1998, provides musical stories for younger listeners. Dr. Hannes Leopoldseder, director of the ORF’s Upper Austria Regional Studio, was looking for something to connect the Ars Electronica (a festival for art, technology and society) and the Brucknerfest, honoring Austrian composer Anton Bruckner. Discussions with Munich musician and composer Walter Haupt eventually led to the event's creation. On 18 September 1979, 100,000 people listened as a studio pre-recording of Bruckner's Symphony No. 8 in C"
"Entsagen, WAB 14 The cantata (Renunciation), WAB 14, is a cantata composed by Anton Bruckner in . Bruckner composed the cantata for the name-day of prior Michael Arneth, the prior of the St. Florian Abbey. The piece was intended to be performed on Arneth's name-day. It is not known when it was performed. Why Bruckner has chosen this unsound text for the name-day of his Maecenas remains unexplained. Perhaps he has put so into music his resignation following his father's death or Aloisia Bogner's refusal of his proposal of marriage. The manuscript is stored in the archive of the St."