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Anton Bruckner

Austrian composer (1824-1896)

  • Audience3.3K
  • Fame74.0
  • Momentum5.0
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3.3K youtube followers
  • Audience3.3K
  • Fame74.0
  • Momentum5.0
  • Austria rank#17
  • Wikipedia20.5K
Lived 1824–1896, aged 72Austria
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  • Wikipedia
    81 languages
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  • Rank in Austria
    #17
    Musicians
  • Era
    1824–1896
    Aged 72
  • Awards
    2
    recognised works
Summary
Updated 2026-08-17

An Austrian organist who built symphonies so long, so harmonically strange, and so structurally radical that critics called them formless—yet he revised them obsessively, doubted himself constantly, and deferred to Wagner like a schoolboy.

Biography

About

Born 4 September 1824, Bruckner came up as an organist before turning to composition, where his symphonies and sacred music—Masses, Te Deum, motets—pushed Austro-German Romanticism to its outer edge through dissonance, unprepared modulations, and polyphonic density. The gap between his harmonic radicalism and his personal humility baffled contemporaries; Hans von Bülow called him "half genius, half simpleton." Critic Eduard Hanslick and the Brahms camp attacked the works' scale and repetition, and Bruckner himself kept reworking them, often with colleagues' help, leaving multiple versions in d…

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Sourced, dated quotes from Anton Bruckner

Anton Bruckner
saidundated
They want me to write differently. Certainly I could, but I must not. God has chosen me from thousands and given me, of all people, this talent.
— As quoted at The Cult of Genius
via Wikiquote · CC BY-SA
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Albums

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  • Messe en mi mineur / Motets
    1990
  • Symphonie Nr. 2 in C Moll
    1990
  • Symphony in F minor
    1990
  • Mass No. 3 in f minor
    1989
  • Symphonie no. 8
    1989
  • Symphony No. 7 in E-major
    1989
  • Symphony No. 7 in E Major, WAB 107
    1989
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Fame
Stable
74.0
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Momentum5.0
Historical24.7
Now attention20.0
Source confidence75.0
Completeness85.0
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#17
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  • Wikipedia
    wikipedia · en.wikipedia.org
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    wikidata · wikidata.org
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  • Pantheon 2.0
    database · pantheon.world
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