Austrian Music Theorists - Arnold Schoenberg, Leopold Mozart, Anton Bruckner, Johann Georg Albrechtsberger, Carl Czerny, Johann Fux, Heinrich Schenker, Simon Sechter, Engelbert of Admont, Felix Salzer, Leopold Nowak, Erwin Ratz (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 23. Chapters: Arnold Schoenberg, Leopold Mozart, Anton Bruckner, Johann Georg Albrechtsberger, Carl Czerny, Johann Fux, Heinrich Schenker, Simon Sechter, Engelbert of Admont, Felix Salzer, Leopold Nowak, Erwin Ratz. Excerpt: Anton Bruckner (4 September 1824) - 11 October 1896)) was an Austrian composer known for his symphonies, masses, and motets. The former are considered emblematic of the final stage of Austro-German Romanticism because of their rich harmonic language, complex polyphony, and considerable length. Bruckner's compositions helped to define contemporary musical radicalism, owing to their dissonances, unprepared modulations, and roving harmonies. Unlike other radicals, such as Richard Wagner or Hugo Wolf who fit the enfant terrible mould, Bruckner showed extreme humility before other musicians, Wagner in particular. This apparent dichotomy between Bruckner the man and Bruckner the composer hampers efforts to describe his life in a way that gives a straightforward context for his music. His works, the symphonies in particular, had detractors, most notably the influential Austrian critic Eduard Hanslick, and other supporters of Johannes Brahms, who pointed to their large size, use of repetition, and Bruckner's propensity to revise many of his works, often with the assistance of colleagues, and his apparent indecision about which versions he preferred. On the other hand, Bruckner was greatly admired by subsequent composers, including his friend Gustav Mahler, who described him as "half simpleton, half God." The birthhouse of Anton Bruckner in AnsfeldenAnton 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 has been tracked back to the 16th century. They lived near a bridge south of Sindelburg, which led ...