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The Symphonies
Complete Versions
Edition

The Bruckner Orchestra Linz and the ORF Radio Symphony Orchestra Vienna, under the overall direction of Markus Poschner, have decided to embark on a unique expedition to mark the 200th anniversary of the composer's birth: the recording of all the symphonies of the genius loci, and for the first time in all versions. By the anniversary year 2024, this extraordinary edition will be available in its entirety on the Capriccio label.
The uniqueness of this project lies not only in its entirety, but above all in its radically new interpretive approach. The Bruckner Orchestra Linz and the ORF Radio Symphony Orchestra Vienna have been intimately familiar with an authentic performance practice of Bruckner for decades. Poschner, with these two orchestras, which historically accurately depict Bruckner's sphere of influence, exposes his symphonies in an unheard-of new way, makes the music dance and sing, traces the Austrian dialect of sound musically, and in the process discovers many surprising things that have so far either been ignored, misunderstood, or simply unnoticed in the reception history of these symphonies. Bruckner comes from Upper Austria, but he is not ours alone.
alone. His music belongs to the world, is heard throughout the world, and thus the world always hears of his origin.
Bruckner is and makes world.
We make his music unmistakable

Markus Poschner & Bruckner Orchestra Linz
Departure Bruckner
Musikverein Vienna and Musiktheater Linz

The Bruckner Orchestra Linz and its principal conductor Markus Poschner will perform all the symphonies of the Genius Loci in the anniversary year. Bruckner is inscribed in the orchestra's name; the event of a concert is every time a new sounding search for traces, which always takes place in the now. On these opening evenings in Vienna and Linz, however, expect not only the "Romantic", but also unexpected guests. A surprise at the beginning of this special year!

Anton Bruckner (1824-1896)
Symphony No. 4 ("Romantic") in E-flat major, WAB 104
Bruckner Orchestra Linz
Markus Poschner I Conductor

April - October 2024
Ansfelden

The museum in Anton Bruckner's birthplace in Ansfelden is dedicated to presenting the life and work of the great composer. In 2024, the house will be home to numerous Bruckner memorabilia that will make the hearts of Bruckner fans and interested members of the public beat faster. In addition to proven loans, there will also be numerous new exhibits on display.

Ars Electronica Center Linz, Deep Space 8K
All year round

Immerse yourself twice in the world of Anton Bruckner at the Ars Electronica Center Linz. First into the musical world of Anton Bruckner and the orchestra of the Bruckner Orchestra Linz, and then into the world of thought of Anton Bruckner and his time. Two exhibition installations in the Ars Electronica Center Linz, developed by the Ars Electronica Futurelab.

In the fantastic 3D projection and interaction space, Deep Space 8K, visitors can visually and musically immerse themselves in the sound world of Anton Bruckner together with the Bruckner Orchestra Linz and interactively experience its special features. Not just as listeners in front of the stage, but in the middle of the orchestra.

In the immersive sound space of the Ars Electronica Center, we can explore the world of thought and spirit of Anton Bruckner and his contemporaries. With quotations, musical examples and many cross-references to the major themes and moving events that defined Anton Bruckner's lifetime. This special sound space turns each visitor into an "interactive mixer". Every step we take in this sound space, every movement of the head brings specific texts, sounds, quotes and examples to the foreground and everyone can create their very own journey through the world of Anton Bruckner's thoughts.

A musical genius between rejection and recognition
Bruckner Forever!
Nordico Linz

September 2024 - February 2025
Nordico City Museum Linz

Anton Bruckner is not just a local phenomenon in Upper Austria, but a world-renowned and recognized great as a musician. Who was this man, in whose honor an entire year is proclaimed in Linz and Upper Austria 200 years after his birth?

The exhibition embarks on a journey into Bruckner's past, exploring the set pieces that remain or have emerged over time and placing them in new contexts. Between provincial dust and the big city, we encounter an introverted nerd, an unrecognized genius and his search for love. The life and work of the musical genius is illuminated as well as critically questioned from today's perspective. Views, original artifacts and documents, as well as contemporary visualizations shed new light on a
great musician. In six themed rooms, the story of Bruckner is retold and made tangible.

To be able to encounter Anton Bruckner in a variety of ways and to find points of contact to one's own history in the confrontation with the artist and man born 200 years ago is the goal of the mediation for the Bruckner anniversary year 2024 in Upper Austria. In doing so, we play on the broad keyboard of mediating formats: Whether audio books for
Whether audio books for very young ears, exciting Bruckner action days during the vacations, a children's book or a TikTok challenge - young Upper Austrians will be picked up with a colorful range of offers on their way to Bruckner.
on their way to Bruckner. For schools of all levels, a separate portfolio is being created, on the one hand with age-appropriate materials, and on the other with projects directly in the classroom, but also at Bruckner locations in Upper Austria with reference to the region of the respective school. For the nearly 36,000 Upper Austrian music students - but also for choirs and music clubs - special arrangements are created to enable them to play and sing Anton Bruckner's music on all instruments, from entry level to professional level.
Inclusion and music by all, for all is therefore the order of the day! In cooperation with festivals and artists, new perspectives and shared musical experiences of
people with and without disabilities. And anyone who wants to become a Bruckner ambassador themselves can take advantage of the "Bruckner Crash Course" and pass on what they have experienced and learned.

Bruckner from the source!
Markus Poschner & Bruckner Orchestra Linz
Brucknerhaus Linz

The Bruckner Orchestra Linz and Markus Poschner guarantee unmistakable Bruckner events that are celebrated not only in Upper Austria, but resonate throughout the world. This is also underlined by the many prizes and nominations for the complete recording currently in progress. However, nothing can replace the live experience. In 2024, the Bruckner Orchestra Linz and its principal conductor will perform all of the Ansfeldner master's symphonies in the Bruckner space and around the world. In the Brucknerhaus, the 'Third' and the 'Sixth ' can be experienced in their own cycle. Expect the unexpected and, above all, to hear more than the music at these concerts.

Bruckner Orchestra Linz
Markus Poschner I Conductor
25.4.2024

Anton Bruckner (1824-1896)
Symphony No. 6 in A major, WAB 106
29.5.2024

Anton Bruckner (1824-1896)
Symphony No. 3 in D minor, WAB 103

TheaterSpectacel Wilhering

From 10.7.2024
Area of the Wilhering Abbey

Anton Bruckner spent several years of his summer vacation at Wilhering Abbey and on this occasion made contact with a monkey that was "imprisoned" there in the palm house. The monkey's name has not been handed down, but he jumps from note to note in one of Bruckner's symphonies. What did the two have to tell each other?
The author Karin Peschka, the composer Rudolf Jungwirth and the director Joachim Rathke take this strange episode as an opportunity to dive into the rich inner world of this brilliant composer, brimming with contradictions. As in the highly successful time travel "MONKS" (2022), the audience becomes part of a journey, from the barn to the palm house and on to the church.

The collegiate basilica of St. Florian is inscribed with a Bruckner aura that cannot be found in any other place in the world. Therefore, performances of Bruckner's music in this magnificent church space become an event in themselves. In St. Florian, the Bruckner Orchestra Linz and Markus Poschner also devote themselves decidedly to the later symphonies, which seem to be particularly aware of a transcendent mystery.

Anton Bruckner (1824-1896)
Symphony No. 7 in E major, WAB 107 (1881-83)

Bruckner Orchestra Linz
Markus Poschner I Conductor

Markus Poschner and the Bruckner Orchestra Linz set standards in the reproduction of the music of the genius loci. This expertise from the source obliges them to pass it on to the younger generation.

The principal conductor of the Bruckner Orchestra Linz introduces conductors to the works of Anton Bruckner in an international master class. Poschner is a charismatic instigator who knows how to lead into corners of scores to uncover the wonder of music in all its uniqueness.

Markus Poschner and the Bruckner Orchestra Linz set standards in the rendition of the music of the genius loci. This expertise obliges them to pass it on - with the aim of enabling the younger generation to experience Bruckner at its source.

A saltworks is a place for the extraction of salt. There is no better place to get a taste for the crystalline basic structures of Bruckner's music. In the vastness of a production hall of the Ebensee salt works, many choirs of Upper Austria, the Bruckner Orchestra Linz and Markus Poschner gather for a unique Bruckner event of a special kind. Expect motte, symphonic parts, improvised and unexpected in a distinctive space.

Choirs of the Upper Austrian Choir Association
Alexander Koller | Conductor
Bruckner Orchestra Linz
Markus Poschner | Conductor

An event of Capital of Culture Bad Ischl -
Salzkammergut 2024 in cooperation with Anton Bruckner 2024

Exhibition: May - October

Outside area St. Florian Abbey

In St. Florian Abbey, Anton Bruckner's visions are referred to in the visual arts. The monumental experience rooms are erected on the proverbial green meadow. Their shape is based on the silhouette of the famous composer. The interior is accessible without barriers. Multimedia presentations allow visitors to experience Bruckner's dreams and visions. The spectrum ranges from his wish to get to know Franz Josef Land in the Northern Arctic Ocean to his manifold efforts to get as close to God as possible. A globally unique, digital and interactive Anton Bruckner listening room is also being created, which is intended to appeal to specialist audiences as well as students and interested laypersons. More than 4,000 sound recordings from the music collection of the OO Landesmuseum will be heard.

14.-24.8.2024
Abbey Basilica and Baroque Rooms of St. Florian Abbey

The program of the St. Florian Bruckner Days is dedicated in the center of the festival to Anton Bruckner's 9th Symphony and the
final fragments. These fragments will be explained by Prof. Dr. Felix Diergarten in a discussion concert before the symphony is performed in the Abbey Basilica. Other concerts include the 10th International Organ Night (Bruckner Organ) as well as numerous concerts around the composer Anton Bruckner from Upper Austrian folk music to world music (Chameleon Orchestra). Other highlights include the opening with the European Brass Ensemble, the performance of J. S. Bach's "High Mass in B minor" with the choir Ad Libitum under Heinz Ferlesch, and a piano recital on the restored Bruckner grand piano. The "Bruckner Ball" in the Marble Hall of the monastery is also eagerly awaited. The festival will again be accompanied by the World Congress of the Bruckner Society of America with the most renowned Bruckner researchers.

Franz Welser-Möst is undoubtedly one of the great conductors of our time at the helm of the Upper Austrian Youth Symphony Orchestra. Just like Anton Bruckner, he also struck his first musical roots in Upper Austria.

This is also the case now with the young musicians of the Upper Austrian Youth Symphony Orchestra, which is an orchestra of the Upper Austrian State Music School. This common musical breeding ground is the starting point for a special series of four concerts in which the young musicians and Franz Welser-Möst dedicate themselves to the genius loci - Anton Bruckner.

The Upper Austrian encourages us to become creative in the Bruckner places of the country and far beyond, to polish up the old and bring it into the present, to discover new things and to make the country with its people and its diverse culture resound. A call has given birth to many projects of all genres and types, and the outstanding ones will be brought to fruition.

Linz and its immediate surroundings are an impulse region for the entire country. Here lie incomparable, his birthplace, places of education, meeting and work as well as the last resting place. Ansfelden and St. Florian form the foundation, the breeding ground and genius loci of the later world star. Bruckner 200" will be celebrated in 2024 in a large number of the district's communities. Inspired by Anton Bruckner, tradition and innovation meet and are carried out to Upper Austria.

Upper Austria will be heard in a polyphony, as befits an extraordinary cultural region of special density and quality. You will soon hear, see and experience more of it!

Lentos Art Museum Linz
October 2024 - January 2025

Anton Bruckner and choral music are closely connected. As the composer of numerous ecclesiastical as well as secular choral pieces, Anton Bruckner is an indispensable part of the musical repertoire of any choir.

The Lentos is dedicated to this aspect of Bruckner's work from the perspective of contemporary art. To this end, the exhibition brings together around 20 national and international positions for which singing together forms an elementary point of reference. The works shown take up singing in its most diverse levels of meaning: as an expression of one's own identity, as a possibility of intercultural exchange, as a means of (political) protest, or as a community-building practice within contemporary societies.

Videos, sound installations and performative projects are presented to visitors in an attractive exhibition architecture, inviting them to explore the role of communal singing in the context of contemporary art.

Now it begins!

The New Year's Concert with the Bruckner Orchestra Linz under its principal conductor Markus Poschner at the Brucknerhaus Linz is a good old tradition. In this country, however, tradition and innovation often go hand in hand. That's why this concert celebrates not only the local jubilarian Anton Bruckner, but also Smetana, Janáček, Schoenberg and Ives, all of whom are celebrating round birthdays. The anniversary year will be officially opened with a dance program of a special kind.

The program will be announced at a later date.

Bruckner Orchestra Linz
Markus Poschner | Conductor

Anton Bruckner himself was a choirboy in St. Florian. In Bruckner's time, however, there were only a total of three boys, who were involved in the liturgy, especially during church services. Today the choir numbers almost 45 boys and is supported by a male choir (almost exclusively former members of the Boys' Choir) - an extraordinary sound experience. On May 4, 2024, the feast of St. Florian (patron saint of the province and diocese of Upper Austria), the St. Florian Boys' Choir, together with the Linz Music High School, will perform Anton Bruckner's Mass in E minor during the Pontifical Mass.

Linz city center

STREAM Club follows in the footsteps of Anton Bruckner in contemporary club culture. As part of the two-day club festival, club sounds conquer church spaces and Bruckner beats conquer the city's dance floors. Based on the genius organ improviser Bruckner, his instrument is the focus of the programming. Concerts, live acts and DJs invite to opulent musical experiences, exuberant party sounds and visualized sound worlds, especially in the evening and night hours. In the afternoon, STREAM Club dedicates itself to Talks,
In the afternoon, STREAM Club devotes itself to the artistic legacy of Anton Bruckner in contemporary club music in a fun and unconventional way through talks, workshops and other educational formats.

The Stadtpfarrkirche, where Anton Bruckner worked as a parish organist, and the Alte Dom, with the Bruckner organ as one of Austria's most important sound monuments, will be the extraordinary venues of STREAM Club 2024. In addition, STREAM Club relies in its usual way on the cooperation with the lively and performance-oriented regional club scene.

Anton Bruckner, the famous, modest composer, musician, teacher: what made this man, who always persevered despite hard trials? Where did he get the strength to follow his idea, to create his music? What did loneliness do to him? These are questions and themes that, in a different guise, also confront many young people today. A musical and lively puppet theater piece for two great actresses and a very small orchestra full of oddities and surprises goes on a search for clues, uncovers many a little secret and dares to find answers.

Puppet theater play with live music for families and children from 10 years (world premiere)

Dorothee Carls and Annika Pilstl | acting
Hans-Jochen Menzel | direction
Peter Lutz | puppet construction
Philipp Plessmann & Spring String Quartet | Music

Production: Children's Cultural Center Kuddelmuddel

The Bruckner Year starts vibrating already in December 2023. In 1868, Bruckner's 1st Symphony was first performed in the Redoutensaal. At this original venue, the Bruckner Orchestra Linz and its principal conductor Markus Poschner are setting a tremo[1]lo to the Bruckner Year. Not only will the "First" and "Zeroth" symphonies be heard, there will be a diverse day for families, but also special educational programs that can only be experienced at the origin.

Bruckner Orchestra Linz
Markus Poschner I Conductor.

Exhibition: May - October

Augustinian Canons' Monastery of St. Florian

When one thinks of Anton Bruckner, one thinks of his masses and symphonies from the second half of his life. However, for his long personal and artistic development up to these top performances, the Augustinian Canons' Monastery of St. Florian was of decisive importance. He spent a total of 13 formative years, first as a choirboy, later as a teacher and monastery organist, in an environment characterized by an enlightened Catholicism open to the sciences and social life. There, in a "place of the world", the young village teacher's son searched tenaciously and also conflictively for his identity as an artist.

The archive of the monastery contains a large number of documents that shed light on this decisive phase of life with all its opportunities and risks. They are now comprehensively shown for the first time in an exhibition, commented on and medially conveyed with audio stations and a docufictional film. The old Bruckner literature has left us with a mined field of prejudices and misinterpretations. There was talk of the "mystical Dammer" of the monastery. The subject of "Bruckner and St. Florian" now becomes vivid in a new way.