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2011
Anton Bruckner - Music of the Saint Florian Period David Aldeborgh
Bruckner’s Will – Clause 4 and its implications Ken Ward
Bruckner and the Legacy of the National Socialists’ Propaganda John Berky
“The Senso Symphony” - Visconti and Bruckner Ken Ward
Timed Structure Tables for Bruckner Symphonies - No.4 William Carragan
Bruckner Symphony No. 8 “Renewal Version” ed. Takanobu Kawasaki
How I Disovered Bruckner Malcolm Hatfield
Claudio Abbado’s young persons’ orchestra swept away my Bruckner-phobia
Richard Eyre
Changing Times for Bruckner’s Fifth Raymond Cox
Counterpoint and Form in the Finale of Bruckner’s Fifth Symphony Julian Horton
Bruckner’s Dissertation - Remarks on the Finale of the Fifth William Carragan
Timed Structure Tables - Symphony No. 5 William Carragan
Bruckner Cycle in Santo André, Brazil
Book: The New Bruckner, Dermot Gault Crawford Howie
Book: Out of Time, Tanya Tintner Ken Ward
Bruckner’s Sonata Form Terminology in Sketches for the Finale of the Eighth
Symphony Paul Hawkshaw
Constructing the “Bruckner Problem” Benjamin Korstvedt
Bruckner’s Vienna in the 1870s and 1880s Andrea Harrandt
Interview: Mario Venzago Sébastien Letocart & Nicolas Couton
Timed Structure Tables - Symphony No. 6 William Carragan
Book: Bruckner.The Man and the Work, Constantin Floros Crawford Howie and
Malcolm Hatfield
2012
The First Forty Years: The Early Music of Anton Bruckner David Singerman
Listen Without Prejudice Tom Service
Bruckner and Elgar: A Comparative Sketch Martin Pulbrook
Toward a Theory of Coherence: Compositional Use of the Turn Eric Lai
Book: Anton Bruckner'\s Wiener Jahre Crawford Howie
Two Bruckner Marathons: USA East & West Coast, 2010 Neil Schore
First Hearing a Bruckner Symphony Simon E. Spero
Bruckner, Mahler, and Anti-Semitism Ken Ward
On the Track of Bruckner's "Railway Obsession" Ken Ward
An Unfinished, and Very Imperfect Dialogue: S-P-C-M Ninth Completion John
Philips
Bruckner's String Quartet and Quintet: Context, Performance, Recording Alan
George
String Quintet in F Major: A Survey of Recordings Hans Roelofs
Timed Structure Tables: Bruckner's Quintet William Carragan
Book: Anton Bruckner: The String Quintet/Studies, Torsten Blaich Crawford
Howie
Book: Simon Schecter's Fundamental-Bass Theory Frederick Stocken
A Bruckner Odyssey: Sir Simon Rattle Talks About the Four-Movement Ninth
Aart van der Wal
Versions and Editions: Deryck Cooke's Contribution Clarified, Part 1 Dermot
Gault
Is Schecter "echter"? Frederick Stocken
Book: Bruckner-Jahrbuch 2006-10, Antonicek/Lindner/Petermayr Crawford
Howie
Book: Bruckner: Leven en werken, van Zwol Bert Brouwer, Ken Ward
Timed Structure Tables: Symphony 7 William Carragan
Two Bruckner Marathons: USA East & West Coast, 2011 Neil Schore
2013
Anton Bruckner: A Non-Pathological View on his Personality and Implications for
his Approach to the Task of Composing Malcolm Hatfield
Versions and Editions: Deryck Cooke’s Contribution Clarified, Part 2 Dermot
Gault
Eckstein, Steiner - and Bruckner Raymond Cox
Bruckner on the Terraces Raymond Cox
Book: Seeking the Infinite: The Musical Life of Stanisław Skrowaczewski, by
Frederick Edward Harris Jr Ken ward
Book: The Wind and Wind-Chorus Music of Anton Bruckner, by Keith William
Kidner David Singerman
Report: 8th Biennial Readers Conference, Hertford Ken Ward
Chorale as Texture in Symphonic Music Brian Newbould
On the Circumstances Surrounding Loss of Bifolios from the Finale of
Bruckner's Ninth Symphony Edwin Banta
Reflections on the Reconstruction of the Coda for the Final Movement of Anton
Bruckner’s 9th Symphony Joan Schukking
Anton Bruckner: Re-Defining our Image of the Composer John Berky
Report: Arts in Residence: Weekend Course on Bruckner & Mahler 9th
Symphonies Raymond Cox
“Bruckner has the last laugh over spiteful sniggerers” Damian Thompson
Timed Structure Tables for Bruckner Symphonies: Symphony No. 8 William
Carragan
Poem: "If I were to play trombone in a Bruckner symphony..." Kenneth Woods
Die Herrgotts-Symphonie [God’s Symphony]: A Bruckner novel by Robert
Hohlbaum (1925) trans. Ken Ward
“Consult with your friends, with Schalk": More Questions and Answers from
Sources for the Eighth Symphony Paul Hawkshaw
Bruckner: A Compromised Composer? Abram Chipman
What Happened to the Sixth? A Comparative Study of the First Edition and the
Collected Edition of Bruckner’s Sixth Symphony Louis Cameron Lohraseb
Poem: "May 1945" Peter Porter
Bruckner at Lucerne Summer Festival, 2013 Albert Bolliger
The Editor's Bruckner Summer Ken Ward
Timed Structure Tables for Bruckner Symphonies: Symphony No. 9 William
Carragan
2014
Bruckner and Wagner: Relationship of Two Contrary Personalities Andrea Harrandt
Levi's Rejection of the Eighth and its Impact on Bruckner the Man and his Attitude
to his Work and Life Malcom Hatfield
Book: The Power of Robert Simpson, Macauley Dermot Gault
Two Bruckner Marathons: USA East & West Coast, 2013 Neil Schore
Timed Structure Tables: Symphony in D Minor & F Minor Willam Carragan
Bruckner Ninth Finale: Alternate Approach Jacques Roelands
A Memorable Beginning: On the New Edition, First Symphony Thomas Röder
Returning to the Vienna Edition of the First Symphony Benjamin Korstvedt
Bruckner Edition Wien: Interview with Benjamin-Gunnar Cohrs
Bruckner and teh "Dresden Amen" Crawford Howie
Gratitude, Respect and Appreciation after 140 Years Klaus Laczika
Timed Structure Tables: Symphony No. 4 "Volksfest" Finale Willam Carragan
My Bruckner Solution Timmy Brown
A Farewell to Life Lawrence K. Tomlinson
Bad Kreuzen: Speculation and No End Eva Marx
Early Days in the the Steyr (Upper Austria) Erich Wolfgang Partsch
Book: Sämtilche Werke zu Band 8, ed. Hawkshaw Dermot Gault
Book: Bruckner and the Generalbass Tradition, Chapman Crawford Howie
Bruckner, the Miniturist David Singerman
Two Bruckner Marathons: USA East & West Coast, 2014 Neil Schore
St. Florian BrucknerTage 2014 Martin Pulbrook
2015
In Memoriam: Peter Palmer Ken Ward & Albert Bolliger
In Memoriam: Otto Erich Partsch Paul Hawkshaw
Anton Bruckner and the Vienna Philharmonic Clemens Hellsberg
The Page-Turner and the "Stammering Cyclops" Keith Gifford
Private Bruckner The Composer in the Years Around 1870 Franz Scheder
How Tall Was Bruckner? Ken Ward
Has Bruckner's Time Come, and Why Now? Abram Chipman
The Mystical Genius of Anton Bruckner Ken Ward
Report: 9th Biennial Readers Conference, Hertford Ken Ward
Obit: Franz Zamazal Ken Ward
Report: Bruckner Conference, Kremsmünster Klaus Petermayr
Interpretative Traps in Bruckner William Carragan
Comment: Handwritten Parts of bruckner's Sixth Rediscovered Benjamin-Gunnar
Cohrs
Comment: Bruckner's Fifth Symphony (Original Concepts), ed. Takanobu
Kawasaki Ken Ward
Interview: Martin Majkut Richard Lenhert
Piano Music of Bruckner: Context and Overview Klaus Petermayr
Anton Bruckner - Holy Minimalist James McCullough
Why the Finale of the Ninth Works John Leonard
Sibelius & Bruckner - Kindred Spirits Peter Frankland
Two Commetaries: God or Mountains - Bruckner & Delius Wilfred Mellers
Bruckner at 2015 Lucerne Festival Albert Bolliger
Review: Die Bruckner-Bestände des Stiftes St Florian, ed. Maier/Grasberger
Crawford Howie
The Least Popular Bruckner Symphony Becomes the Most Popular Akira Naito
2015 Bruckner Tour of Austria Ken Ward
Bruckner Organ Transciptions Eberhard Klotz
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