FormatCD

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Release date01.09.2023

Catalog no.C8089

EAN0845221080895

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Romance

Capriccio

Bruckner, Anton

Bruckner: Symphony No. 2 (1877)

Bruckner Orchestra Linz · Poschner, Markus

Anton Bruckner wrote his Symphony No. 2 in C minor in 1871, when he had already lived in Vienna for three years and was internationally recognized as an organist. The musical world in the great city was divided between traditionalist musicians and critics and progressive thinkers. Bruckner's work was first premiered by... Read more

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Anton Bruckner wrote his Symphony No. 2 in C minor in 1871, when he had already lived in Vienna for three years and was internationally recognized as an organist. The musical world in the great city was divided between traditionalist musicians and critics and progressive thinkers. Bruckner's work was first premiered by the Vienna Philharmonic, but rejected as "nonsense" by Otto Dessoff, one of the most influential conductors of his time. This early symphony was thus destined for the "Brucknerian fate of revision." Initially, only the order of the movements was changed and individual passages deleted; later, the composer radically reduced all instrumental parts and then, above all, substantially cut the finale by 193 measures. Despite its radical reduction, the present version still contains the expansive structure typical of Bruckner.

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