"We recoil in horror before this rotting odour which rushes into our nostrils from the disharmonies of this putrefactive counterpoint. His imagination is so incurably sick and warped that anything like regularity in chord progressions and period structure simply do not exist for him. Bruckner composes like a drunkard!"
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Gustav Dompke, in the German Times of Vienna (1886), as quoted in Lexicon of Musical Invective: Critical Assaults on Composers Since Beethoven's Time (1965) by Nicolas Slonimsky, p. 80. Also quoted with the attribution in Listening to music: the essential guide to the classical repertoire, by Jonathan Kramer, p. 198.
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Anton Bruckner
1824 – 1896
österreichischer Komponist, Organist und Musikpädagoge
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