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Composer: Anton Bruckner (1824-1896)
Work: Missa Solemnis B-Moll (1854) [wab29]
Performers: Cilla Grossmеyеr (soprano); Mira Zakai (1942-2019, alto); Wilfriеd Jochеns (tenor); Assеn Vassilеv (bass);
Monteverdi Choir Hamburg; Israel Chamber Orchestra; Jürgen Jürgens (1925-1994, conductor)
Missa Solemnis B-Moll (1854)
1. Kyrie 0:00
2. Gloria 3:32
3. Credo 11:42
4. Sanctus 23:50
5. Benedictus 25:56
6. Agnus Dei 30:59
Painting: Leopold Bucher (1797-1858) - Enthüllung des Denkmals für Kaiser Franz I. von Österreich am 19. Juni 1846 auf dem Wiener Franzensplatz
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Painting: Ferry Beraton (1859-1900) - Anton Bruckner (1889)
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(Joseph) Anton Bruckner
(Ansfelden, nr Linz, 4 September 1824 - Vienna, 11 October 1896)
Austrian composer. He was the son of a village schoolmaster and organist in Upper Austria. He showed talent on the violin and spinet by the age of four, and by age 10 he was deputizing at the church organ. In 1835-36 he studied in Hörsching with his godfather, J.B. Weiss, a minor composer. After his father’s death in 1837, Bruckner entered the monastery-school of St. Florian as a choir boy. He trained in Linz as an assistant schoolteacher in 1840-41, and after holding appointments in Windhaag and Kronstorf, he returned to St. Florian as a fully qualified elementary teacher in 1845. Bruckner taught at St. Florian for about a decade, and in 1848 he became the principal organist of its abbey church. In the meantime his compositional skills steadily advanced, and the St. Florian period saw a fine Requiem in d (1849) and the Missa solemnis (1854), for Mayer's inaugural mass as prior, celebrated on 14 September 1854. The church music repertory, compared with the amateur establishments of his early childhood, was vast and featured Austrian classical and pre-classical composers including Michael Haydn, the St Florian composer Franz Seraph Aumann (1728-1797, whose music Bruckner admired), Albrechtsberger, Joseph Haydn and Mozart. In 1856 he was reluctantly persuaded by his friends to apply for the post of cathedral organist at Linz, which he won easily. In 1861 Bruckner concluded his arduous studies with Sechter with magnificent testimonials, and he also astonished his judges at an organ examination in Vienna. His style in works such as the seven-part Ave Maria (1861) displays new freedom, depth, and assurance. He now embarked on a study of form and orchestration with Otto Kitzler, and during this time he discovered the music of Franz Liszt, Hector Berlioz, and above all Richard Wagner.
After two earlier essays in the orchestral form, Bruckner completed his Symphony No.1 in c in 1866. That same year he finished the Mass in e, which, along with the Mass in f (1868), completed his triptych of great festive masses. They rank among the highest achievements of Roman Catholic church music. Late in 1866 Bruckner suffered a severe nervous collapse, from which he recovered after three months in a sanatorium, though intense depressions would later trouble him. In 1868 he succeeded his late teacher Sechter in a professorship at the Vienna Conservatory. There he taught harmony and counterpoint and endeared himself to pupils for his memorable and engaging academic style. The story of the last 25 years of Bruckner’s life is essentially that of his symphonies: the creation of new concepts of form, time-span, and unity, and his struggle to achieve success in the face of fierce critical opposition. Bruckner was a fervent admirer of Wagner, and he was erroneously branded as a disciple of that composer; his career suffered from his unwitting involvement in the fierce battle then raging between the adherents of Wagner and Brahms. Bruckner received a long-sought appointment as a lecturer at the University of Vienna in 1875 over the opposition of Hanslick, who was dean of the university’s music faculty. In 1878 he was elected a member of the Hofkapelle, where he had been an unpaid organist for years. By the early 1890s Bruckner had become a famous and honoured figure, and he was awarded an honorary doctorate of philosophy from the University of Vienna in 1891. His last choral-orchestral works were Psalm 150 (1892) and Helgoland (1893). Three movements of his Symphony No.9 in d were ready by 1894, but he was unable to complete the finale before his death. He was buried at St. Florian.
5 июл 2024
