Anton Bruckner (1824-1896)

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Los 115 | Anton Bruckner (1824-1896)
Anton Bruckner (1824-1896)
Autograph music manuscript, sketches for the Vienna version of the Symphony No.1 in C minor, WAB 101, [Vienna, 1890]
Sketches for the Vienna version of the Symphony No.1.

Drafts for bars 94-97 of the 1st movement, notated on two systems for 1st violin above and trombones and basses below, with two additional emendations on single systems, and the annotation 'Schluss Hörner halbe Noten? wegen FC ...'. On a single leaf, 252 x 331mm, numbered '11' in pencil.

Provenance:
(1) Siegfried Ochs (1858-1929, conductor, promotor of Bruckner's music): in C.G. Boerner's catalogue (c.1920), p.28.

(2) Louis Koch (1862-1932): no.292 in Kinsky's catalogue.

(3) Stargardt, Berlin, 24/25 March 2015, lot 447.

(4) Schøyen Collection, MS 5545.

This was chronologically Bruckner's second symphony (after the 'Study Symphony' in F minor), but the first that Bruckner considered worthy of performing. Bruckner was a 41-year old cathedral organist at Linz when he completed composition in August 1866: the work was first performed by an orchestra drawn from local musicians under the composer's baton on 9 May 1868, a few months before his move to Vienna, but attracted little attention, in spite of a favourable review by Eduard Hanslick. With the growing international interest in Bruckner's works in the late 1880s, the conductor Hans Richter proposed reviving the 1st Symphony, which had not been performed since its premiere, and this prompted Bruckner to embark on an extensive programme of revisions, as documented in the present leaf, reworking both instrumentation and details in the treatment of thematic materials. This 'Vienna version' was first performed on 13 December 1891 and published two years later. The earlier, 'Linz version', remained unknown until it was published in the Gesamtausgabe in 1935, although it is now the dominant version in performance.

Renate Grasberger. Bruckner-Werkverzeichnis (1977), no.101 (p.110).
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