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• Personalities
• Classical
• Composer
• Late Romantic

triumphant faith, their almost cathedral-like proportions infused with exciting orchestral power and poetry. Born in the small town of Ansfelden near Linz, where his father was schoolmaster, Bruckner grew up in an environment of rustic humility and devout Catholicism. After his father died, the talented 13-year-old began studies as a chorister at the nearby monastery of St ...

• Instruments
• Brass
• Electric & Electronic
• Keyboards
• Percussion
• Stringed
• Woodwind

creation, the Wagner tuba, had more success thanks to its use in his operas, and it was also written for orchestrally by Richard Strauss (1864–1949) and Anton Bruckner (1824–96). The clarinet family was still expanding, mainly because of its dominant role in wind bands, and it soon contained models in C, Bb, A, ...

• Personalities
• Classical
• Conductor
• Modern Era

later, and conductor of both the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra and the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra from 1895 until his death. He performed the works of many contemporary composers, including Bruckner, Tchaikovsky, Mahler and Strauss. Introduction | Modern Era | Classical Personalities | Eugene Ormandy | Modern Era | Classical ...

• Personalities
• Classical
• Composer
• Modern Era

was both a friend of Schoenberg and his opposite: his comprehensive knowledge of the Austro-German tradition led him to develop it, in a style that is close to Anton Bruckner (1824–96). His most important compositions include two operas, four symphonies, five major chamber works and, above all, his visionary oratorio Das Buch mit sieben Siegeln (‘The ...

• Personalities
• Classical
• Composer
• Late Romantic

Concerto No. 1, Scottish Fantasy; Vieuxtemps: Concerto No. 5, Jascha Heifetz, New SO (cond) Sir Malcolm Sargent (RCA/Sony) Introduction | Late Romantic | Classical Personalities | Anton Bruckner | Late Romantic | Classical ...

• Personalities
• Classical
• Conductor
• Contemporary Classical

took over both the Gewandhaus Orchestra and the opera in Leipzig, resigning the latter in 2008. As well as Italian operatic repertory, Chailly’s discography includes the symphonies of Bruckner and Mahler, as well as Shostakovich, Stravinsky and Berio. Introduction | Contemporary | Classical Personalities | William Christie | Contemporary | Classical ...

• Styles & Forms
• Classical
• Early Romantic

as well as a wider palette of sounds and available sound combinations. Symphonies were written in great numbers: in Germany by Schumann and Felix Mendelssohn (1809–47); in Vienna by Anton Bruckner (1824–96) and Johannes Brahms (1833–97); in Russia by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840–1893); and in Czechoslovakia by Antonín Dvořák (1841–1904). Perhaps the most characteristic symphonic form of this period, however ...

• Styles & Forms
• Classical
• Late Romantic

Johannes Brahms (1833–96) did not compose his first symphony until he was in his forties, and completed only four. Following the example of Brahms and, in particular, Bruckner, Gustav Mahler (1860–1911) became the last great exponent of the Viennese symphonic tradition that stretched back as far as Haydn, and his awareness of this is central to ...

• Styles & Forms
• Classical
• Late Romantic

poems, including the metamorphosis of themes and a redistribution of the individual components of classical forms which served to heighten dramatic contrast and an almost theatrical intensity of expression. Bruckner The terracing of dynamics and musical texture in Bruckner’s nine symphonies (1865–96) paid homage to the Baroque, and the inevitable forward movement of each work towards a triumphant apotheosis ...