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Denis Fodor [[log in to unmask]] wrote:
>Ray Canyon writes:
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>>...There are lots of composers and performers that have had complex
>>behavioral or neurogenic problems... but we have been blessed by their
>>music... Britten and Bruckner are two just now coming to new levels of
>>evaluation....
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>What was/were Bruckner's problem/s, please? (Apart from the one with
>Brahms)
As I see it, Bruckners mind was split in two contradictory wiews on himself
and his mission as composer. His feelings told him that he was not going
to be a great musician, meanwhile he dreamed and felt that to become a
great composer was his destiny.
Therefore when Bruckner started writing on a symphony he began with feeling
ankward about it, but he had the gift to write excellent andantes, and the
more he wrote of a symphony, the more he felt that this was his destiny and
the more he fell in love with his own work.
Thats why I percieve Bruckners symphonies (Nr. 4 is an exception here) to
have a relatively weak first movement, with increasing quality through the
whole work, ending in a triumphant finale...
Mats Norrman
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