Bruckner à son piano en 1894, deux ans avant sa mort. Anton Bruckner (4 septembre 1824 - 11 octobre 1896) était un compositeur autrichien connu pour ses symphonies, messes, et des motets. Les premiers sont considérés comme emblématiques de l'étape finale de l'Austro-German
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Bruckner at his piano in 1894, two years before his death. Anton Bruckner (September 4, 1824 - October 11, 1896) was an Austrian composer known for his symphonies, masses, and motets. The first are considered emblematic of the final stage of Austro-German Romanticism because of their rich harmonic language, strongly polyphonic character, and considerable length. His compositions helped to define contemporary musical radicalism, owing to their dissonances, unprepared modulations, and roving harmonies. His works, the symphonies in particular, had detractors who pointed to their large size and use of repetition, as well as to Bruckner's propensity to revise many of his works, often with the assistance of colleagues, and his apparent indecision about which versions he preferred. On the other hand, Bruckner was greatly admired by subsequent composers including his friend Gustav Mahler, who described him as "half simpleton, half God". Bruckner was a devoutly religious man, and composed numerous sacred works. He wrote a Te Deum, settings of five Psalms (including Psalm 150 in the 1890s), a Festive cantata, a Magnificat, about forty motets (among them eight settings of Tantum ergo, and three settings of both Christus factus est pro nobis and Ave Maria), and at least seven Masses. He died in 1896 at the age of 72. He is buried in the crypt of the monastery church at Sankt Florian, immediately below his favorite organ. He had always had a morbid fascination with death and dead bodies, and left explicit instructions regarding the embalming of his corpse. No artist credited, dated 1894.
