Anton Bruckner labored long and hard before he got much recognition as a composer, studying compulsively for many years. He composed ma...

Anton Bruckner (1824-1896)  wrote a total of eleven symphonies, although two go unnumbered. There is a certain amount of similarity within a...

Anton Bruckner (1824 - 1896) was an Austrian composer who is most well known for his Symphonies and religious music.  He studied to be a s...

Symphony in F Minor was Bruckner's first attempt in the form. Bruckner wrote it as part of an assignment from his last composition teac...

After Anton Bruckner's father died in 1837, he was sent to the  monastery in the town of St. Florian as a choirboy.  While there he stud...

By the time Anton Bruckner began his 1st Symphony in 1865 he was in his forties and had discovered the music of Wagner. Hearing Wagner's...

Bruckner began composing his 9th Symphony straight away after his 8th symphony  in 1887, and he worked on it intermittently until he die...

Bruckner was a composer that formally studied his craft of music until he was forty years old. He had already composed a considerable numb...

The time in Bruckner's life when the 5th symphony was composed was a troubled one. He had just suffered the humiliation of the first p...

Bruckner's sacred choral music output is considerable. As a devout Catholic, he took his works for the church very seriously and com...

Bruckner's fame as a composer rests solidly with his symphonies. As far as number of compositions, he composed more music for chorus a...

As with most of his other symphonies, Bruckner rewrote the 8th on the advice of Hermann Levi , the conductor that was to premiere the work...

Of all Bruckner's symphonies (9 official, 11 if you include numbers 0 and 00) the 4th is the only one that Bruckner himself gave a sub...

When Anton Bruckner (1824 - 1896) paid a visit to Richard Wagner in 1873, he brought along his 2nd and 3rd Symphonies.  He wanted to ded...

In the somewhat confusing world of Anton Bruckner (1824 - 1896) and the numbering of his symphonies, this Symphony  in D Minor is actual...