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Autograph letter signed ('A. Bruckner') to an unidentified friend ('Liebster Freund!'), Vienna, 5 May 1884.
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BRUCKNER, Anton (1824-1896)
Autograph letter signed ('A. Bruckner') to an unidentified friend ('Liebster Freund!'), Vienna, 5 May 1884.
In German. 21⁄2 pages, 226 x 145mm, on a bifolium.
'My 7th Symphony is finished and a great Te Deum'. The letter opens with an apology (apparently for a letter gone astray) and congratulations, before giving news of his compositions: 'My 7th Symphony is finished and a great Te Deum. Nikisch in Leipzig is quite delighted with the 7th and wishes to perform it himself before long at the concerts for the Wagner Monument Fund. Here in Vienna nothing has been performed apart from the string quintet at the Akademischer Gesangverein', also criticising the inactivity of Hans Richter ('He blows in Hanslick's horn!'); Bruckner will be staying in and around Munich and hopes to see the recipient, asking for his precise address. A postscript refers to the dedication of the string quintet to Duke Max Emanuel of Bavaria.
The first performance of Bruckner's 7th Symphony was given by Arthur Nikish and the Gewandhaus Orchestra in Leipzig on 30 December 1884, to great acclaim. His Te Deum had been completed on 7 March 1884, but was not to be performed until 2 May 1885, in a two-piano version: the first orchestral performance, under Hans Richter, took place in January the following year. The String Quintet was completed in 1879, and Bruckner had (characteristically) made some revisions and aditions in 1884, notably to the finale; the technically challenging scherzo was not performed in public at all until 1885.
Autograph letter signed ('A. Bruckner') to an unidentified friend ('Liebster Freund!'), Vienna, 5 May 1884.
In German. 21⁄2 pages, 226 x 145mm, on a bifolium.
'My 7th Symphony is finished and a great Te Deum'. The letter opens with an apology (apparently for a letter gone astray) and congratulations, before giving news of his compositions: 'My 7th Symphony is finished and a great Te Deum. Nikisch in Leipzig is quite delighted with the 7th and wishes to perform it himself before long at the concerts for the Wagner Monument Fund. Here in Vienna nothing has been performed apart from the string quintet at the Akademischer Gesangverein', also criticising the inactivity of Hans Richter ('He blows in Hanslick's horn!'); Bruckner will be staying in and around Munich and hopes to see the recipient, asking for his precise address. A postscript refers to the dedication of the string quintet to Duke Max Emanuel of Bavaria.
The first performance of Bruckner's 7th Symphony was given by Arthur Nikish and the Gewandhaus Orchestra in Leipzig on 30 December 1884, to great acclaim. His Te Deum had been completed on 7 March 1884, but was not to be performed until 2 May 1885, in a two-piano version: the first orchestral performance, under Hans Richter, took place in January the following year. The String Quintet was completed in 1879, and Bruckner had (characteristically) made some revisions and aditions in 1884, notably to the finale; the technically challenging scherzo was not performed in public at all until 1885.
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