The Bruckner Bicentennial

Austria has declared 2024 as “The Bruckner Year,” marking the 200th anniversary of the birth of one of its native sons: Anton Bruckner. Born Sept. 8, 1824, in a village near Linz, Austria, the organist, chorister and teacher was a late bloomer who composed all his major works after age 39. “Bruckner has retained a secure place in the symphonic repertory,” observes noted Bruckner scholar and musicologist Benjamin Korstvedt. “And today many experience a combination of spiritual depth and intellectual intensity in this music that uncannily suits our post-modern condition.”