Anton Bruckner - Vienna, Austria
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Anton Bruckner was an Austrian composer known for his symphonies, masses, and motets.
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Location: Wien, Austria
Date Posted: 09/11/2014
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This monument to Anton Bruckner is located at the Belvedere Palace complex in Vienna. The monument has a circular relief depicting Bruckner and the following inscription on a slab of stone:
In diesem Hause starb
Anton Bruckner
am 11. Oktober 1896
[English Translation: In this House Anton Bruckner died on October 11, 1896]
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"Anton Bruckner (4 September 1824 – 11 October 1896) was an Austrian composer known for his symphonies, masses, and motets. The first are considered emblematic of the final stage of Austro-German Romanticism because of their rich harmonic language, strongly polyphonic character, and considerable length. Bruckner's compositions helped to define contemporary musical radicalism, owing to their dissonances, unprepared modulations, and roving harmonies.
Unlike other musical radicals, such as Richard Wagner or Hugo Wolf who fitted 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 (and detractors of Wagner), 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"."