Tag: Anton Bruckner
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Composing in the bath
Gustav Mahler recalled: After an illness, Bruckner was ordered by his doctor to take a daily hip-bath. Loath to waste time, he would take music paper and compose while in the tub. While absorbed in his work one day, the mother of Rudolf Kryzanowski, one of his pupils, knocked at the door. “Come in!” called…
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A courteous conductor
Brucker was invited by Hans Richter to conduct one of his symphonies with the Vienna Society of Friends of Music. At the rehearsal he stood on the conductor’s platform, stick in hand, with a beatific smile on his face. The orchestra were all ready to begin, but he would not lift his stick to give…
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Conditions stipulated for the Imperial Court Chapel
The Imperial Chapel Choir was founded in Vienna in 1498 and performed exclusively for the court. Composers that worked with the choir included Musicians like Heinrich Isaac, Paul Hofhaimer, Heinrich Ignaz Franz Biber, Johann Joseph Fux, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Antonio Caldara, Antonio Salieri and Anton Bruckner. Schubert was a chorister. After the dissolution of the…
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Bruckner the count
Anton Bruckner developed a condition call numeromania that compelled him to count everything – cathedral gables, stars, leaves on the trees; even the number of bars in his lengthy symphonies. Source: Lawrence, Christopher (2001) Swooning. Sydney: Random House, p.70.