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Symphony No. 1 (1891) + 1865 Scherzo: Poschner / Bruckner Orchestra / Capriccio CD
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Anton Bruckner finally received the award of an honorary doctorate of the University of Vienna on 11 December 1891. For Bruckner, receiving the doctorate fulfilled a long-time wish. He had spent most of his life pursuing academic credentials and applied for honorary doctorates at Cambridge University in 1882 and at the Universities of Pennsylvania and Cincinnati in 1885. Two days later, Hans Richter conducted the Vienna Philharmonic in the first performance of the second or so-called “Vienna” version of the composer’s First Symphony, which he had dedicated to the university in gratitude for the degree. The changes Bruckner made in the revised version of the First Symphony are not as extensive as those he made to the Third, Fourth, and Eighth Symphonies during the late 1880s and early 1890s. His revisions to the First Symphony did not affect the overall form of any of the movements. He changed many details of orchestration, articulation, and phrase length, some of which are difficult to notice on first hearing. There is however, an entirely different build up to the coda in the final movement. The 1891 autograph score is, nevertheless, the composer’s final word on how he wanted his First Symphony to be performed and understood. In addition to the 1891 score, this CD also contains the first commercial release of Bruckner's early schezo from 1865!
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