Recent developments in Bruckner scholarship

Music and Letters

Volumn 85, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 83-94

  Horton, Julian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

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EID: 61449306729     PISSN: 00274224     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ml/85.1.83     Document Type: Review

References (37)

1. Anton Bruckner: A Documentary Biography, i: From Ansfelden to Vienna
2. Paul Hawkshaw and Timothy L. Jackson (eds.), Bruckner Studies (Cambridge, 1997)
3. See e.g. Mathias Hansen, 'Die faschistische Bruckner-Rezeption und ihre Quellen', Beiträge zur Musikwissenschaft, 28 (1986), 53-61
4. Bryan Gilliam, 'The Annexation of Anton Bruckner: Nazi Revisionism and the Politics of Appropriation', Musical Quarterly, 78 (1994), 584-604
5. Benjamin Korstvedt, 'Anton Bruckner in the Third Reich and After: An Essay on Ideology and Bruckner Reception', Musical Quarterly, 80 (1996), 132-66
6. Leon Botstein, 'Music and Ideology: Thoughts on Bruckner', ibid. 1-11
7. Christa Brüstle, Anton Bruckner und die Nachwelt: Zur Rezeptionsgeschichte des Komponisten in der ersten Hälfte des 20. Jahrhunderts (Stuttgart, 1998)
8. See Timothy Jackson, 'The Enharmonics of Faith: Enharmonic Symbolism in Bruckner's Christus Factus est', Bruckner-Jahrbuch 1987-88 (1988), 7-20
9. Edward Laufer, 'Some Aspects of Prolongational Procedure in the Ninth Symphony', in Hawkshaw and Jackson (eds.), Bruckner Studies, 209-55
10. Derrick Puffett, 'Bruckner's Way: The Adagio of the Ninth Symphony', Music Analysis, 18 (1999), 5-99
11. repr. in Kathryn Bailey-Puffett (ed.), Derrick Puffett on Music (Aldershot, 2001), 687-789
12. Warren Darcy, 'Bruckner's Sonata Deformations', in Hawkshaw and Jackson (eds.), Bruckner Studies, 256-77
13. Benjamin Korstvedt, Bruckner: Symphony no. 8 (Cambridge, 2000), 27-53
14. Perspectives on Anton Bruckner. Ed. by Crawford Howie, Paul Hawkshaw, and Timothy Jackson, pp. xxvii + 412. (Ashgate, Aldershot, 2001, £49.50. ISBN 0-7546-0110-2.)
15. For important applications of deformation theory', see James Hepokoski, Sibelius: Symphony no. 5 (Cambridge, 1993)
16. On the matter of Bruckner's metrical annotations, see Timothy L. Jackson, 'Bruckner's Metrical Numbers', Nineteenth-Century Music, 14 (1990), 101-31
17. Edward Murphy, 'Bruckner's Use of Numbers to Indicate Phrase Lengths', Bruckner-Jahrhuch 1987-88 (1988), 39-52
18. Leopold Nowak, Anton Bruckner, Musik und Leben (Linz, 1973), 127
19. and id., 'Studien zu den Formverhältnissen in der E-moll Messe von Anton Bruckner', in Othmar Wessely (ed.), Bruckner-Studien. Festgabe der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften zum 150. Geburtstag von Anton Bruckner (Vienna, 1975), 249-70
20. See also Stephen Parkany, 'Kurth's Bruckner and the Adagio of the Seventh Symphony', 19th Century Music, 11 (1988), 262-81
21. Considerations of this matter have mainly focused on the Eighth Symphony, See e.g. Paul Dawson-Bowling, 'Thematic and Tonal Unity in Bruckner's Eighth Symphony', Music Review, 30 (1969), 225-36
22. William Benjamin, 'Tonal Dualism in Bruckner's Eighth Symphony', in William Kinderman and Harald Krebs (eds.), The Second Practice of Nineteenth-Century Tonality (Lincoln, Nebr., 1996), 237-58
23. and Julian Horton, "Towards a Theory of Nineteenth-Century Tonality" (Ph.D. diss., University of Cambridge, 1998), 128-270
24. See Erwin Ringel, 'Psychogramm für Anton Bruckner', in Franz Grasberger (ed.), Bruckner Symposion Linz 1977 (Linz, 1978), 19-27
25. See Carolyn Abbate, Unsung Voices (Princeton, 1991), 3-29, esp. 28-9
26. August Göllerich and Max Auer, Anton Bruckner: Ein Lehens- und Schaffensbild (Regensburg, 1922-37)
27. and Manfred Wagner, Bruckner: Ein Monographic (Mainz, 1983)
28. Robert Simpson, The Essence of Bruckner (London, 1967, repr. 1992)
29. Other commentators have paid similarly slight attention to this matter. See e.g. the brief, dismissive remarks in Elisabeth Maier, 'A Hidden Personality: Access to an "Inner Biography" of Anton Bruckner', in Hawkshaw and Jackson (eds.), Bruckner Studies, 32-53, esp. 51
30. For a more extended consideration of the relationship between theories of obsessive-compulsive behaviour and Bruckner's personality, see Julian Horton, Bruckner's Symphonies: Analysis, Reception and Cultural Politics (Cambridge, forthcoming), ch. 7
31. Sigmund Freud, 'A Case of Obsessive-compulsive Neurosis [The "Ratman"]' in The Wolfman and Other Cases, trans. Louise Adey Huish (London, 2002), 125-202
32. See e.g. the letter dated Vienna, 12 Aug. 1889, which famously asks Göllerich to classify features of a church and municipal buildings in Bayreuth, in Anton Bruckner, Gesammelte Briefe. Neue Folge, ed. Max Auer (Regensburg, 1924), 225
33. For a consideration of Bruckner's prayer records, see Maier, 'A Hidden Personality'
34. On the issue of relationships and the obsessive personality, see Salzman, The Obsessive Personality, 61-85
35. See Johnson, Bruckner Remembered, p. xiv
36. See Margaret Notley, 'Bruckner and Viennese Wagnerism', in Hawkshaw and Jackson (eds,), Bruckner Studies, 54-71, esp. 67-8
37. Contemporary documentary evidence is also collected in Manfred Wagner, 'Bruckner in Wien', in Franz Grasberger (ed.), Anton Bruckner in Wien: Eine kritische Studie zu seiner Persönlichkeit (Graz, 1980), 9-74