A bold, deeply researched, and long-needed debunking of the platitudes and prejudices that have long clouded our view of the personality and compositional habits of Anton Bruckner.

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List of Musical Examples Note on Access to the Periodical Literature Cited Acknowledgments Introduction Part I: Perceptions of Bruckner's Personality Chapter 1. Bruckner's History: History's Bruckner Of Candles and Flames Of Platitudes and Psychograms Of Biographies and Hagiographies Chapter 2. A History of Controversies The Transmission of Bruckner's Music The IBG and the "Regensburg Walpurgis Night" Part II: Viennese Reception of Bruckner's Music Chapter 3. Early Reception, ca. 1873-1885 "A Sort of Dictatorship Over Public Opinion": Feuilletonism vs Music Criticism "At the End of All Music": Early Works and The Second Symphony "An Unforgettable, Heart-Wrenching Moment": The Third Symphony "A Musical Civil War Broke Out": The Fourth Symphony and the F-Minor Mass "Bruckner Can No Longer be Ignored": The Sixth Symphony and the String Quintet Chapter 4. Mid Reception, ca. 1885-1892 "The Pinnacle of Symphonic Creation": The Seventh Symphony in Germany "The Time Is Near": The Te Deum and the Seventh Symphony in Austria "Malicious and Subjective Criticism": 1890 Performance of the Third Symphony "Imbued with the Seal of Brilliance": Other Works Performed in the 1890s Chapter 5. Late and Posthumous Reception, ca. 1892-1924 "A Total Victory of Light Over Darkness": The Eighth Symphony and the Late Reception "Bruckner Is A Simple Being": Schenker's Reception of Bruckner "Already Blessed with A Monument!": Posthumous Reception of Bruckner Conclusion: Myths and Fallacies Of Opponents and Enemies Of Unbildung and Formlessness Bibliography Index