Anton … and on
● THIS IS A WARNING OF HEAVY weather ahead. Next year marks the bicentenary of the birth of Anton Bruckner with incoming gales of his symphonies, nine of them numbered and two marked “0” and “00”. To add to the confusion, the symphonies exist in as many as nine different editions made by misguided fans and headstrong conductors.
The real Bruckner () is not easily identified. The acidulous conductor Hans von Bülow called him “half simpleton, half genius”, which is not far from the truth. Johannes Brahms dismissed
