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| SYMPHONY No. 9 IN D MINOR (1894) | |
| First
Movement - Scherzo & Trio - Adagio Critical new edition by Benjamin Gunnar Cohrs, drawing upon the work of Alfred Orel und Leopold Nowak (2000) 3,3,3,3,-8(5-8+WagnerTb),3,3,1-Timp-Str / 60' | |
| B 9-STP | Study score (2nd revised edition 2005) ISMN 979-0-50025-249-8 |
| B 9-DIR | Conductor's score (2nd revised edition 2005) ISMN 979-0-50025-262-7 * Performance material for hire |
 From
Leopold Nowak's Foreword: 'The first performance of the Ninth Symphony took
place in Vienna on 11 February 1903, seven years after Bruckner's death;
it was Ferdinand Löwe who took this step, conducting the orchestra of
the Wiener Konzertverein. He had, however, "been zealous in carrying
out retouchings and changes in instrumentation throughout all of the many
rehearsals,"
(Auer) and in the event the work was clad in a quite different overall sound
from the one the composer had in mind. Löwe did all this with the
best of intentions and his services to Bruckner's work as a whole are still
recognized
as being among the greatest that anyone has ever performed for the master
of Sankt Florian. But when, on 2 April 1932, Siegmund von Hausegger and the
Munich Philharmonic played the familiar version followed by the original,
the invited audience were in no doubt as to how Bruckner himself had wanted
his Ninth to sound.' |
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| B 9-RVB | Critical report by Benjamin Gunnar Cohrs
(2001) ISBN 978-3-900270-53-7 / ISMN 979-0-50025-222-1 |
| Finale
Fragment (1895/96) edited by John A. Phillips (1994) |  |
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| B 9/4-STP | Study
score (revised edition 1999) ISMN 979-0-50025-211-5 | |
| B 9/4-FKS | Facsimile edition of all
autograph pages ISMN 979-0-50025-133-0 | |
| B 9/4-DOK | 'Documentary
score', specifically for use in concert performance. ISMN 979-0-50025-232-0 (2002) * Performance material for hire |
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| Bruckner
left the Finale of his Ninth Symphony unfinished. The consecutive numbering
of the four-page manuscript sheets shows that part of the autograph material
has been lost. Close examination of the existing sources refutes the notion
that the extant material simply contains confused sketches; on the contrary,
the numerous sketches and pages of full and short score are evidence
that Bruckner was working according to a clear and bold concept.
Nobody can say what shape and form Bruckner would finally have given to
this his last Finale. Abstaining from speculation of any kind, the Bruckner
Complete Edition reconstructs this mighty torso on the exclusive basis
of the composer's autographs and a critical screening and ordering of the
sources. The 136 pages of music in the study score follow Bruckner's own pagination and are followed by six pages of the composer's sketches and notes for the coda. The German-English text section contains an instructive foreword, a chapter 'On the Edition', and synoptic charts on the sources. |
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| Monographs on the Symphony No. 9: |   |
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| B 9/1-Q | First
Movement: Monograph (John A. Phillips) ISMN 979-0-50025-228-3 in preparation |
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| B 9/2-Q | Second
Movement: Scherzo und Trio. Monograph. Drafts, older Trio with viola solo, all autograph pages in facsimile (Benjamin Gunnar Cohrs) ISMN 979-0-50025-182-8 |
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| B 9/3-Q | Third
Movement: Adagio. Monograph
(John A. Phillips) ISMN 979-0-50025-229-0 in preparation |
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| B 9/4-Q | Fourth
Movement: Finale.
Monograph (John A. Phillips) ISMN 979-0-50025-230-6 in preparation |
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| B 9-TXT | Study
volume on all four movements (John A. Phillips) ISMN 979-0-50025-231-3 in preparation |
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