John Dalmas ([log in to unmask]) wrote: >John Proffitt reported: > >>. . . the first version of the Third does survive in Bruckner's own >>manuscript. ... > >Thanks, John, for reporting that the first manuscript of the Third is >indeed extant. This is (to me) exciting news. Presumably this is Wagner's 'dedication copy'? >Has anyone identified the Wagner quotations and where in the symphony >they occur? It was reported earlier on this thread that the final movement >of the symphony in this manuscript was in sketch form only. When Bruckner visited Wagner. I never suggested that he didn't complete the finale. Deryk Barker [log in to unmask]