In 2011 we will not be celebrating a round-numbered anniversary pertaining to Anton Bruckner (1824-96). The music world will be busy feting Liszt (born 200 years ago) or Gustav Mahler (died 100 ...

They eclipse Mozart’s Symphonies Nos. 29, 35, and 40. They outshine all of Anton Bruckner’s symphonies. They exceed all of Robert Schumann and Felix Mendelssohn’s symphonies.

A slight man, Mahler wrote giant-sized, tempestuous music that echoes his countryman, Anton Bruckner; on first hearing, a Mahler piece usually sounds like far-out Brahms with Wagnerian delusions.

He was misunderstood. Gustav Mahler, an admirer, summed up Bruckner better than most, calling him “half simpleton, half God.” Bruckner’s music is still looked down on by some musical ...

In a small community in the mountains, we don't often hear the symphonies of Anton Bruckner and Gustav Mahler. The Hendersonville Symphony Orchestra performs many staples of the 19th-century symphonic ...

You rarely find works by Anton Bruckner and Gustav Mahler on the same programme. It’s as if there is an either-or dynamic whereby, like choosing a sports team, a listener can only root for one ...

People often associate the music of Anton Bruckner with that of Gustav Mahler, and it's something that conductor Simone Young finds very strange. Bruckner was a product of Brahms and Schubert ...

Like overeating at Thanksgiving, composers can overindulge on music. Commentator Miles Hoffman discusses the reaction some composers had to the "musical bloat" of the Bruckner and Mahler years ...

Mahler was also influenced by Anton Bruckner, who was then on the conservatory’s faculty. Following graduation, Mahler took up a few provincial operatic conducting posts.

While studying at the Vienna Conservatory, Mahler sometimes attended the lectures of Anton Bruckner, although he was not officially his pupil. In addition to Bruckner, Mahler was heavily ...

National Symphony Orchestra music director Christoph Eschenbach has long had an affinity for the symphonies of Anton Bruckner, music that embodies timelessness and lofty spirituality. Its ...