Publications of the Anton Bruckner Institut Linz (ABIL)
ANTON BRUCKNER DOKUMENTE UND STUDIEN
All volumes 24 x 17 cms, sewn in soft covers

Theophil Antonicek
ANTON BRUCKNER UND DIE WIENER HOFMUSIKKAPELLE
[Anton Bruckner and the Vienna Court Orchestra]
Series Editor: Franz Grasberger (1979)
MV 101. 168 pages, ISBN 978-3-900270-77-3
Membership of the Hofmusikkapelle was a notable distinction which had a decisive influence on a musician's social status. Bruckner applied for membership for many years before Hofkapellmeister Herbeck used his influence in his favour. The relevant documents, collected here in one book for the first time, show, inter alia, that the most disturbing aspect of Bruckner's fate was not any lack of understanding or malice on the part of his contemporaries; on the contrary, Bruckner's desire to be liked and to elicit acts of kindness from others tragically led him to adopt modes of behaviour which were successful in the short term, but ultimately caused his fellows to keep him at arm's length.


ANTON BRUCKNER IN WIEN
Eine kritische Studie zu seiner Persönlichkeit
[Anton Bruckner in Vienna. A critical study of his personality.]
Series Editor: Franz Grasberger
MV 102. 292 pages, ISBN 978-3-900270-78-0 (1980):
Manfred Wagner, Bruckner in Wien: Ein Beitrag zur Apperzeption und Rezeption des oberösterreichischen Komponisten in der Hauptstadt der k. k. Monarchie [On the perception and reception of the Upper Austrian composer in the capital of the Habsburg monarchy]
Bruckner's social position in Vienna as seen by his contemporaries and in the light of a systematic analysis of material from the press.
Johannes-Leopold Mayer, Musik als gesellschaftliches Ärgernis - oder: Anton Bruckner, der Anti-Bürger. Das Phänomen Bruckner als historisches Problem. [Music as a social scandal. Or: Anton Bruckner the anti-citizen. The phenomenon Bruckner as a historical problem.]
With his highly individual music, Bruckner adopted a stance opposed to that of liberal-democratic society, but at the same time resisted the attempts of the Christian-Social groupings to lure him into their fold.
Elisabeth Maier, Anton Bruckners Arbeitswelt [Anton Bruckner's working world]
Documentary evidence refutes the legend of a passive Bruckner, blown to Vienna as it were on the winds of chance; on the contrary, Vienna was for Bruckner a conscious goal, a city where he sought security in permanent employment. He was reticent on this subject towards his leisure-time companions, whose speculations in this regard led to numerous misrepresentations.
Leopold M. Kantner, Die Frömmigkeit Anton Bruckners [Anton Bruckner's piety]
Contemporary piety is compared with with Bruckner's own, with influences being traced and examined. Bruckner is shown to have been a deep believer, fervent in prayer, pathologically scrupulous, and having few attractive personality traits; the religious Bruckner, devout but by no means saintly, is quite definitely at odds with the Bruckner we know from his music.

Elisabeth Maier and Franz Zamazal
ANTON BRUCKNER UND LEOPOLD VON ZENETTI
Series Editor: Franz Grasberger (1980)
MV 103. 264 pages, ISBN 978-3-900270-79-7
Leopold von Zenetti played an important role as Bruckner's teacher during his time in Kronstorf (1843-45). This book gives not only a detailed in-context presentation of Zenetti's life and work but also an equally detailed account of Bruckner's early creative life. The chapter headings speak for themselves: 'The Classical inheritance', 'Extended horizons', and 'Desire for perfection'.

Renate Grasberger
BRUCKNER-BIBLIOGRAPHIE (to 1974)
Series Editor: Othmar Wessely (1985)
MV 104. 296 pages, ISBN 978-3-900270-80-3
In addition to titles directly concerned with Bruckner, this bibliography also includes entries for sections in general music history publications dealing with Bruckner and/or his work.
Part II see Vol 12 (MV 112)

Hans Kreczi
DAS BRUCKNER-STIFT ST. FLORIAN UND DAS LINZER REICHS-BRUCKNER-ORCHESTER (1942-1945)
Series Editor: Othmar Wessely (1986)
MV 105. 368 pages, ISBN 978-3-900270-81-0
Hans Kreczi, for many years responsible for cultural administration in Linz, gives the first account of Hitler's plan to combine the Augustinian Stift Sankt Florian, the Bruckner-Orchester and the Bruckner-Chor to form the Musikwerk des Großdeutschen Rundfunks ('music project of Greater German Radio'), which was intended to occupy an important position in the National-Socialist re-ordering of post-war Europe.

Steffen Lieberwirth
ANTON BRUCKNER UND LEIPZIG. DIE JAHRE 1885-1902
Series Editor: Othmar Wessely (1988)
MV 106. 114 pages, ISBN 978-3-900270-82-7
Taking as his starting-point the first performance of the Seventh Symphony in Leipzig – a highly important event for Bruckner's international reputation – the author makes a convincing case for the significance of Leipzig in the reception of Bruckner's work. The abundance of choice illustrations makes this ample documentation a doubly attractive book with an appeal to both mind and eye.

Renate Grasberger / Erich W. Partsch
(with the collaboration of Uwe Harten),
BRUCKNER - SKIZZIERT. Ein Porträt in ausgewählten Erinnerungen und Anekdoten
[Bruckner in sketches. A portrait in selected reminiscences and anecdotes.]
Series Editor: Othmar Wessely (1991)
MV 108. 290 pages, ISBN 978-3-900270-16-2
To what exent has the standard image of Bruckner been manipulated by anecdote? In what sense does anecdotal evidence have documentational value in its own (albeit limited) right? In over 300 reminiscences and anecdotes, the authors present Bruckner as seen by his contemporaries and later commentators, with the various contributions being ordered in thematic groups (way of life, religion, women, authority, his professional world). This juxtaposition of sources raises a number of basic questions and points up, for instance, the need for an analysis of the stereotype of Bruckner as 'God's musician'.

Renate Grasberger (with the collaboration of Uwe Harten)
BRUCKNER-IKONOGRAPHIE TEIL I (1854-1924)
[Bruckner documentation in pictures, Part I (1854-1924)]
Series Editor: Othmar Wessely, in collaboration with Andrea Harrandt, Elisabeth Maier und Uwe Harten (1990)
MV 107. 250 pages, ISBN 978-3-900270-83-4
Extensive basic research and a number of happy coincidences bore fruit in this comprehensive documentation with a quantity of pictorial material new to Bruckner researchers. The wide range of 186 chronologically ordered and precisely described illustrations include photographs, painting, watercolours, drawings, caricatures, etchings, lithographs, woodcuts and engravings, ex libris plates, postcards, medallions, plaquettes and memorial plaques. The black-and-white pictures are reproduced in sepia tones, with colour pictures being collected in a section of their own.

Renate Grasberger
BRUCKNER-IKONOGRAPHIE TEIL 2 (1925 bis 1946)
[Bruckner documentation in pictures, Part Two: 1925–1946]
Series Editor: Theophil Antonicek in collaboration with Moritz Csáky – Andrea Harrandt – Elisabeth Maier (2004)
With addenda to Part One (= Vol. 7, MV 407)
Over 200 illustrations, mainly little-known depictions of the composer, with detailed commentaries and index.
MV 114. 280 pages, 16 in colour, ISBN 978-3-900270-67-4


Renate Grasberger
BRUCKNER-IKONOGRAPHIE TEIL 3 (1947 bis 2006)
[Bruckner documentation in pictures, Part Three: 1947–2006]
Series Editor: Theophil Antonicek in collaboration with Renate Grasberger – Elisabeth Maier – Erich Wolfgang Partsch (2007)
With addenda to Part One (= Vol. 7, MV 407) and Part Two (= Vol. 14, MV 114)

Over 300 illustrations, with detailed commentaries and a complete index for all three volumes.
MV 118. 385 pages, 32 in colour, ISBN 978-3-900270-76-6

Hans Kreczi
BRUCKNER-ORCHESTER UND BRUCKNERHAUS LINZ
Series Editor: Othmar Wessely
in collaboration with Andrea Harrandt, Elisabeth Maier and Uwe Harten (1992)
MV 109. 308 pages, ISBN 978-3-900270-21-6
Kreczi gives an account of the development of the Bruckner-Orchester in the wider context of goals pursued in cultural politics; topics dealt with include the rise in musicians' social status, internal power struggles, and above all, the long-drawn-out fight for the realization of the idea of the Brucknerhaus.
An appendix presents detailed data and material on the orchestral concerts from 1949 to 1974 (the year of the opening of the Brucknerhaus), including concert programmes, artists, attendance figures and press notices.

Harry Slapnicka / Rudolf Zinnhobler / Othmar Wessely / Franz Zamazal
STAAT - KIRCHE - SCHULE IN OBERÖSTERREICH. Zu Anton Bruckners sozialhistorischem Umfeld
[State, Church and School in Upper Austria: Anton Bruckner's socio-historical world.]
Series Editor: Othmar Wessely
in collaboration with Andrea Harrandt, Elisabeth Maier and Uwe Harten (1994)
MV 110. 264 pages, ISBN 978-3-900270-28-5
Harry Slapnicka: Oberösterreich zwischen Wiener Kongreß und den Anfängen der Politischen Parteien (1815--1870) [Upper Austria between the Congress of Vienna and the beginnings of the political parties (1815–1870)]
Rudolf Zinnhobler: Das Bistum Linz zwischen Spätjosephinismus und Liberalismus [The diocese of Linz between late Josephinism and Liberalism]
Othmar Wessely: Der junge Bruckner und sein Orgelspiel [The young Bruckner and his organ-playing]
Franz Zamazal: Familie Bruckner -- Drei Generationen Lehrer. Schulverhältnisse -- Ausbildung -- Lebenslauf [Three generations of Bruckners in teaching: Their situation at school – their training – their lives.]
The four studies collected in this volume deal with Bruckner's socio-cultural world; written by an historian, a church historian, a musicologist and a specialist for documentary research respectively, they offer the reader a variety of ways of acquiring a deeper familiarity both with the world and times Bruckner lived in, and with the path of the composer's development.


Elisabeth Maier
VERBORGENE PERSÖNLICHKEIT – Anton Bruckner in seinen privaten Aufzeichnungen [Hidden personality – Anton Bruckner in his private notebooks.]
Series Editor: Theophil Antonicek
in collaboration with Moritz Csáky/Andrea Harrandt/Elisabeth Maier (2001)
MV 111. 2 volumes, cased, 750 and 426 pages,
ISBN 978-3-900270-60-5
As Anton Bruckner's letters are to a very large extent concerned with the fate of his works, the few genuinely private autograph sources are particularly significant for the insights they allow us into his personality. These are the notebooks he used from his time in Linz until his death, of which twenty-two have survived.
These documents, some privately owned and hitherto inaccessible to scholars, are published here in their entirety for the first time. The first volume contains fulsomely annotated transcriptions of all the pages, and a comprehensive appendix with notes on all the individuals mentioned by Bruckner; the second volume contains reproductions of all the pages with written entries.


Renate Grasberger
BRUCKNER-BIBLIOGRAPHIE. Part Two (1975-1999)
Series Editor: Theophil Antonicek
in collaboration with Moritz Csáky/Andrea Harrandt/Elisabeth Maier (2002)
MV 112. 249 pages, ISBN 978-3-900270-61-2
This volume follows on directly from the first part of the Bruckner-Bibliographie, published in 1985; together, the two volumes represent an indispensable basic tool for all Bruckner researchers. The items are ordered alphabetically by author; a comprehensive index section facilitates the speedy location of information sought by the user.
Part I see volume 4 (MV 104)


Erich Wolfgang Partsch
ANTON BRUCKNER UND STEYR
Series Editor: Theophil Antonicek (2003)
in collaboration with Moritz Csáky/Andrea Harrandt/Elisabeth Maier
MV 113. 468 pages, with 100 illustrations, ISBN 978-3-900270-62-7, out of print;
with a contribution on church history by Roland Bachleitner (2003).
This study is the first detailed account of the composer's lifelong association with the town of Steyr, and takes into consideration a quantity of hitherto unknown written and pictorial material.

From the Contents:
• Tausend Jahre Musik in Steyr [A thousand years of music in Steyr]
• Bruckners sozialhistorisches und kirchengeschichtliches Umfeld [Bruckner's socio-historical and   ecclesiastical world]
• Bruckner als "Ferienkomponist" [Bruckner as 'holiday-composer']
• Wirkungsgeschichte nach 1896 [Bruckner's influence after 1896]

ELISABETH MAIER
ANTON BRUCKNER ALS LINZER DOM- UND STADTPFARRORGANIST. Aspekte einer Berufung [Anton Bruckner as organist of the cathedral and city parish church in Linz: Aspects of a vocation]with an essay by Ikarus Kaiser: ‘Der Dom- und Stadtpfarrkapellmeister Karl Borromäus Waldeck und die Orgel der Stadtpfarrkirche in Linz’[Karl Borromäus Waldeck, Kapellmeister of the cathedral and city parish, and the organ of the city parish church in Linz]
MV 115. 520 pages with numerous illustrations, ISBN 978-3-900270-72-8

The period 1855–68 saw Anton Bruckner make a number of critical decisions. He left the monastic and rural world for the secular milieu of the city, he gave up schoolteaching to become a professional musician, and he developed from an organist and composer of church music into a symphonist. In crossing these borders, he was uncompromisingly following the dictates of his inborn creative gift, which was increasingly making composition into his ‘chief life-task’. This book provides the most comprehensive possible documentation of the sources (many hitherto unpublished) relating to this decisive phase in Bruckner’s life, and considers them as evidence for his artistic development. Archival vestiges of complicated bureaucratic procedures, letters, and newspaper articles combine to form a fascinating and moving portrait of a great vocation in the making.


ANTON BRUCKNER IM GEDICHT. Ein Rezeptionsphänomen
[Anton Bruckner in poetry. A reception phenomenon]
with contributions by Elisabeth Maier, Oswald Panagl and Erich Wolfgang Partsch
Series Editor: hrsg. von Renate Grasberger, Elisabeth Maier und Erich Wolfgang Partsch (2005)
MV 116. 232 pages, ISBN 978-3-900270-69-8

267 poems by 108 authors from over 140 years from occasional poetry and dialect verse to works by Eugen Roth, Josef Weinheber and Charles Bukowski as an important source of reception history

with critical commentary and biographical details on the authors