Die Daily News Nr. 12830 schreiben auf S. 3 in der 4. Spalte über das gestrige Konzert mit der 7. Symphonie:
"                          MUSIC.
            THE RICHTER CONCERTS.
     The Richter concert last night attracted one of the largest audiences of the present season. There can be little doubt of the reason. The people were certainly not drawn by Brahms' "Academic" overture [... mit Panne, wurde wiederholt ...]. Nor were the audience drawn by a new and almost interminable symphony by Anton Bruckner. The enormous audience had come to St. James's Hall to hear the Ride of Walkyries, but more especially the great love duet which occupies the greater part of the first act of "Die Walküre." [... über die Fortschritte im Wagner-Gesang ... Pauline Cramer für die erkrankte Mme. Valleria, Lob für Herrn Lloyd ...]. They deserved the treat, if only for the test to which they were subsequently to be subjected in listening to Herr Bruckner's seventh symphony. No one will deny the high ability shown in this work; but, on the other hand, no one would rashly attempt to describe it in detail, at any rate until the English language is furnished with more synonyms for the word "prolixity" than our vocabulary can now boast. It may be accepted as a healthy axiom that, unless the author is a consummate genius–which Herr Bruckner certainly is not–an hour is far too long for a symphony, or for the matter of that, for anything to which a mixed multitude is compelled to listen, except perhaps a sermon. The only valid excuse for such largiloquence is that the fortunate composer, having once got his unhappy audience together, may never again be accorded such another chauce [sic], and is therefore tempted to indulge in musical pleonasm. The special form which this very undesirable quality takes in Herr Bruckner's seventh symphony, lies in a perfect craze for the "inversion" of a theme "by contrary motion," a device frequently used with advantage in fugue writing, but never intended to be scattered broadcast through a symphony a full hour long. As no mortal ear could readily follow these inversions, the whole thing soon became wearisome, and it was not surprising that after the first half-hour a steady exodus began among the audience. Bruckner is now living in Vienna, and sixteen years ago he appeared with success as an organist at the Albert Hall. He did not attain any great fame as a composer until he was upwards of sixty years old, and his symphony in E, which contains in its slow movement an Elegy to Wagner, and is dedicated to the late King Ludwig of Bavaria, is a very able but a not altogether profitable example of the prosiness of age, which loves to spin a long yarn about matters which, in this busy world, should be far more briefly dismissed." [keine Signatur] (*).

(Vortragsübung des Wiener Konservatoriums (**)).