Trip Slide Show

Pictures can be seen as a slide show or individually. Captions are included where necessary. More pictures may be added during the month.

Bruckner monument at Ansfelden
Grave of Anton Bruckner's father
Bruckner's birth house (Geburthaus)
Second floor sign
First floor sign
Sign at entrance to Birth House Museum
Ansfelden Parish Church
Schoolroom at the Geburthaus
Living room at the Geburthaus
Death mask at the Geburthaus
Organ console used by Bruckner (now at the Geburthaus in Ansfelden)
Sculpture in the birth room
Bruckner sculpture at the Anton Bruckner Center in Ansfelden
Symphonie-wanderweg map at Anton Bruckner Center
Bruckner Wanderweg sign
One of the Wanderweg stations along the trail
The road between Ansfelden and St. Florian
The countryside between Ansfelden and St. Florian
Welcome to St. Florian, Austria
The Monastery at St. Florian
Aerial view of the Monastery (postcard)
Alter at St. Florian church
Bruckner marker at the front entrance to the monastery church
The Bruckner Organ at St. Florian
My room at the St. Florian guesthouse
Organ console at St. Florian
Keys to the monastery gates
Matthais Giesen offers me a private recital (Adagio from the String Quintet)
Some stones from the original foundation (13th century)
Bruckner and me (St. Florian crypt)
Bruckner's sarcophagus
Some of the bones behind Bruckner's sarcophagus
Bruckner's bed
I am tempted to take a nap
Bruckner's Bosendorfer piano and other furnishings
the BrucknerTag Committee takes me to dinner. (L-R:Guenther Pfisterer, Simon Windner, Klaus Laczika, Julian Gillesberger, Matthias Giesen, Franz Prammer
The crypt door - two doors down from my room
The garden outside my room
The church towers from the garden
My rental car parked inside the monastery
Haupt Platz in Linz
Plaque for the Bruckner Glockenspiel in the Haupt Platz, Linz
The Alten Dom (Old Cathedral) in Linz
The Bruckner Organ in the Alten Dom (postcard)
Brucknerstiege Exhibit marker
One of the panels for the new Brucknerstiege Exhibit (on the stairs leading to the organ loft of the Alten Dom)
A Bruckner bust as part of the Brucknerstiege Exhibit
Alten Dom alter as seen from the organ loft
Bruckner Organ console at the Alten Dom
The original manual bellows in the Bruckner Organ
The very faint written farewell by Bruckner on the Alten Dom organ console
Bruckner plaque outside the Alten Dom in Linz
Bruckner plaque outside the Linz Parish Church
One of several buildings in Linz where Bruckner taught students and led choirs
Bruckner led a choir here. The first floor is now occupied by the Anton Bruckner Institute
The Danube River cruise ship, Anton Bruckner
The Brucknerhaus Concert Hall in Linz
The Mariendom (New Cathedral) in Linz (Postcard)
Plaque in Mariendom commemorating the first performance of Bruckner's Mass in E Minor
Stained glass panel in the Mariendom
The Valhalla Shrine in Regenburg, Germany (Postcard)
Valhalla (taken from the steps in front)
A view of the Danube from Valhalla
The Bruckner bust in Regensburg
The Bruckner bust as it is placed today (Max Reger is on the right)
This is a photo of me standing on the same spot that Hitler stood for his infamous picture at the installation of the Bruckner bust in 1937
My hotel in Ebrach, Germany
Signing the register at the opening reception (Ken Ward and Stephen Pearsall are behind me)
The chuch at the Ebrach Cloister (before the first concert)
William Carragan and Gerd Schaller relaxing after the Bruckner 1st concert
Closing the street for a rehearsal
Bruckner fanatics listening to a closed rehearsal outside the church
Dirk Borth, William Carragan and me.
Ken Ward shows off his newly sculpted Bruckner bust
Pia Molck-Ude and Ken Ward
William Carragan with the score to the 1874 Symphony No. 3
The crack abruckner.com promotion team prepares to launch their Ebrach media blitz.
The Bavarian Radio recording production van
The breakfast crowd (Dietmar Achenbach, Ken Ward, William Carragan's friend, Inez, Werner de Smet, Stephen Pearsall, Lilo Achenbach
Dietmar Achenbach, Ken Ward and I share a joke. Bruckner looks on admiringly.
The closing reception: Dietmar and Lilo Achenbach, Horst Ernstberger, Stephen Pearsall, Ken Ward, John Berky. Photo by Heinz Sendler