Bruckner, (Joseph) Anton

(JOSEPH) ANTON BRUCKNERBRUCKNER, (JOSEPH) ANTON(JOSEPH) ANTON BRUCKNER [* 1824-† 1896] The long period of theoretical education which Anton Bruckner completed during the 1840s and 50s led to a thorough grounding in a conservative nineteenth-century tradition. His interactions with Johann August Dürrnberger (author of Elementar-Lehrbuch der Harmonie- und Generalbaß-Lehre, 1841) and correspondence with SECHTER fostered a rigor which well matched his personality and introduced him to some notions…