Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy was a kind of contemporary classicist in the first decades of Anton Bruckner's work and as such had a lasting influence on the orchestral works from Bruckners' student days, in which echoes the theme and instrumentation of the Hebrides Overture, for example. The Symphony No. 3 in A minor, which became popular under the epithet "Scottish," on the other hand, was known to Bruckner at least from the concert hall.
His own highly individual symphonic style is first documented by Bruckner's Symphony No. 1 in C minor, premiered in Linz in 1868, with which the composer, already over 40 years of age, set out into new worlds and confidently entered the musical field that was avowedly the most important for him: that of symphonic music. When he subjected the work to a fundamental revision beginning in 1890, resulting in its "Wiener Fassung" ("Viennese version") which theViennaPhilharmonic Orchestra launched on December 13, 1891, he affectionately and jokingly referred to it as his "saucy Beserl.
Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy (1809-1847)
The Hebrides. Concert Overture No. 2 in B minor, op. 26 (1829-30, rev. 1832 & 1835)
Symphony No. 3 ("Scottish") in A minor, op. 56 (1829-42)
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Anton Bruckner (1824-1896)
Symphony No. 1 in C minor, WAB 101 (1865-66, rev. 1877, 1889-91) "Wiener Fassung".
Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra
Christian Thielemann | Conductor