TY - BOOK ID - 80817408 TI - Anton Bruckner, Symphony no. 8 AU - Korstvedt, Benjamin M. AU - Cambridge University Press PY - 2000 SN - 9780511605918 9780521632263 9780521635370 0511605919 051101919X 9780511019197 0511035888 9780511035883 0511152426 9780511152429 051132751X 9780511327513 9786610432226 6610432228 0521632269 0521635373 1107115744 9781107115743 1280432225 9781280432224 0511173369 9780511173363 0511051115 9780511051111 0511089104 PB - Cambridge, UK New York Cambridge University Press DB - UniCat KW - Bruckner, Anton, KW - Bruckner, Jozef Anton KW - Symphonies. KW - Sinfoniettas KW - Symphonies (Orchestra) KW - Symphoniettas UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:80817408 AB - Anton Bruckner's Eighth Symphony (1890), one of the last of the great Romantic symphonies, is a grandly complex masterpiece. Its critical reception has been fascinatingly contentious. Its music, at once extensive and distilled, directly confronts the problem of the symphony after Beethoven and after Wagner. This book explores this many-faceted work from several angles. It documents the complicated and often misunderstood history of the symphony's composition and revision and offers an accessible guide to its musical design. It demonstrates, by means of a study of well-known recordings, how performance styles have evolved in this century. It also revisits the conventional wisdom about the various versions and editions of the symphony and comes to some provocative new conclusions. ER -