Bruckner completed his solemn Mass in E minor in 1866, but extensively revised the score in the years 1876-1882. Among his masses, this work (specifically composed for outdoor performance) is unusual in terms of its instrumentation: Bruckner dispenses with the typical string and organ accompaniment in favor of a wind ensemble. There are no sections for solo voice; instead, the choir shines throughout. The eight-part harmonies can prove a particular performance challenge. The Kyrie, with its dissonant half-tone clusters, will be best enjoyed by the choir (and audience!) when everyone has learnt their parts and can give their full attention to the conductor
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Digital text (without sheet music) incl. printing licence, html file, Introductory text, germanhtml file, Introductory text, german (Sample)Vorwort der Augabe Carus 27.093Dagmar Glüxam
Schon als Kind wurde Anton Bruckner durch seinen musikbegeisterten Vater, den Schullehrer Anton Bruckner (1791–1837) zur Mitwirkung – u. a. auch als Hilfsorganist – bei verschiedenen musikalischen Aufgaben im Kirchendienst herangezogen. In den Jahren 1835–36 bekam Bruckner Unterricht in Orgelspiel, Musiktheorie und Generalbass bei seinem Firmpaten Johann Baptist Weiß, durch den er auch bedeutende kirchenmusikalische Werke von J. S. Bach, W. A. Mozart oder J. Haydn kennenlernen konnte. Eine weitere Möglichkeit, sich mit dem Messrepertoire des 18. und 19. Jahrhunderts bekannt zu machen, bot sich dem jungen Bruckner im Augustiner-Chorherrenstift St. Florian. Dort wurde er nach dem frühen Tod des Vaters mit dreizehn Jahren als Sängerknabe aufgenommen und erhielt auch eine umfassende musikalische Ausbildung. Einen weiteren wichtigen Aspekt bildet in diesem Kontext seine gründliche Auseinandersetzung mit dem Kontrapunkt. Im Juli 1855 wurde Bruckner schließlich als ausgezeichneter Organist und vielversprechender Komponist zum Kontrapunktschüler des einflussreichen österreichischen Musiktheoretikers, Musikpädagogen, Dirigenten, Komponisten und Organisten Simon Sechter
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Anton Bruckner
| 1824-1896Anton Bruckner was born in Ansfelden (Austria) in 1824 and did not have a particularly easy life. The Austrian composer came from a simple, rural background and was plagued by self-doubt throughout his life. After the death of his father, he was accepted as a choirboy at St Florian's Abbey at the age of 13. After several years as a school assistant and self-taught organ and piano studies, he initially worked as an organist in St Florian. In 1855 he was appointed cathedral organist in Linz. After an introduction to music theory and instrumentation by Simon Sechter and Otto Kitzler, Bruckner discovered Richard Wagner as an artistic role model, whom he admired throughout his life and also visited several times in Bayreuth.
In 1868 Anton Bruckner became professor of basso continuo, counterpoint and organ at the Vienna Conservatory, ten years later court organist. In 1891 he was awarded an honorary doctorate from the University of Vienna. He was regarded as an important organ virtuoso of his time, but his compositional recognition was a long time coming. It was not until the Symphony No. 7 in E major, composed between 1881 and 1883, with the famous Adagio, which was written under the impression of Wagner's death, that he received the recognition he had hoped for, even if he did not want to accept it in view of his tendency towards scepticism and self-criticism.
Anton Bruckner was a solitary composer who did not want to follow any school or doctrine. He wrote both sacred and secular works in all their facets. In addition to numerous motets, Bruckner composed three masses, the Missa Solemnis in B flat minor (1854) and the Te Deum (1881-84; CV 27.190/00), which is available from Carus-Verlag. As a symphonist, he wrote a total of nine symphonies and many symphonic studies from 1863 onwards, whereby he tended to revise finished versions several times. Bruckner's orchestral works were long considered unplayable, but for the tonal language of their time they were merely unusually bold sound monuments on the border between late Romanticism and Modernism, uniting traditions from Beethoven to Wagner and folk music.
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