Deryk Barker [[log in to unmask]] wrote:

>Mats Norrman ([log in to unmask]) wrote:
>
>>...  On the early september 1872 however Bruckner sent Dessof his
>>new 3rd symphony (symphony nr.2).
>
>I find this reference somewhat confusing.  If you're intending to indicate
>that Bruckner's Symphony No.2 was actually the 3rd to be written (coming
>after 1 and 0) then you are fogetting the Schul-Symphonie or '00'.

Yes, Because that's how Bruckner counted (and he was a master in counting
you know:-), and it was so "teh audience" counted for long, as the standard
Schalck, Haas and Nowak editions excluded the Nr.00.  It was first in 1955
Nowaks edition of nr.00 was published.

Mats Norrman
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