Usama Amin wrote:

>For me the saddest music, and one I've asked my wife to play at my
>funeral (sorry to get morbid here) is the adagio movement from Bruckner's
>7th symphony.  It is said that Bruckner wrote it as an elegy for Wagner,
>and even calls for Wagner tubas in the score.  I find myself quite
>overwhelmed whenever I hear this movement.

Actually it was the coda which he intended as a memorial to Wagner, he
had already composed most of the movement by the time news of Wagner's
death reached him.

I don't know whether or not you'll want to know this, but it was this
movement which Reich Radio played in 1945 after their announcement of
Hitler's death.

Deryk Barker <[log in to unmask]>