Bruckner's Abbey

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GMG member @Foxandpeng mentioned elsewhere that he was interested in people's reactions to Bruckner's works: here is an excerpt from an unpublished novel with something of interest perhaps on that basis.

"...when (at age 11) Tom heard the Fourth Symphony of Anton Bruckner for the first time, a section of the symphony's first movement, bars 334 to 350, suddenly conjured forth an image of himself as a very small child watching a B-52 meander through the clouds on its way to the base.  Exactly why and how the music of a 19th-century Austrian composer should resurrect this memory in his soul remained a mystery that he often contemplated and marveled at.  Strange that such a death-dealing aircraft could be linked to the poetry of sounds!