Anton Bruckners Eighth Symphony (1890); one of the last of the great Romantic symphonies; is a grandly complex masterpiece. Its critical reception has been fascinatingly contentious. Its music; at once extensive and distilled; directly confronts the problem of the symphony after Beethoven and after Wagner. This book explores this many-faceted work from several angles. It documents the complicated and often misunderstood history of the symphonys composition and revision and offers an accessible guide to its musical design. It demonstrates; by means of a study of well-known recordings; how performance styles have evolved in this century. It also revisits the conventional wisdom about the various versions and editions of the symphony and comes to some provocative new conclusions.
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2 of 3 people found the following review helpful. Great historical book.By WaterdoggieIf you are interested in what old Los Angeles use to look like; this is the ticket.There are a ton of good articles plus many old pictures describing the people and events of the turn of the century.
