Denis Fodor [[log in to unmask]] wrote: >Ray Canyon writes: > >>...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.... > >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 [log in to unmask]