Talk:Anton Bruckner

A 2014 unflattering review of the 9th reads:

The massively loud and dissonant orchestral pile-up of a chord near the end of the third movement is a vision of a despairing abyss that the quiet music that comes after it can't possibly console. It's as if Bruckner shrinks back from the vision his exquisitely arcane brain had led him to. That chord is the product of a passage of music that behaves entirely according to the laws of musical structure that the composer revered. Yet all that careful construction reveals something so strange, so shocking, and so disturbing – all the more so because the music has the irresistible power of a force of nature rather than a subjective, personal scream. It's a moment that's a transfiguration of all that obsessiveness. This isn't Bruckner's shout into the void, but the cosmos itself in pain. RobS^{Deep Six the Deep State!} 00:54, 11 February 2019 (EST)