Der Glasgow Herald Nr. 128 berichtet auf S. 10 von der Aufführung der 7. Symphonie am 23.5.1887:
"      MUSIC AND THE DRAMA.
(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)
                                   London, Sunday Night.
[...]
     Dr Richter left London on Tuesday to conduct the Lower Rhine Festival at Dusseldorff, whence he will return this week. At his last concert at St James's Hall, Richter produced the seventh symphony in E by Herr Bruckner, a Viennese organist, who did not attain any fame as a composer until after he had passed sixty years of age. Bruckver [sic] was a friend of Wagner, who appears to have good-humouredly rallied him, and laughingly promised that he would produce all his seven symphonies at Bayreuth, a satirical undertaking which Bruckner accepted seriously. The symphony occupies an hour in performance, and its complexitiy deprives it of a good deal of its proper interest. Furthermore, the composer has made a far too plentiful use of the driest of scholastic devices known as "inversion by contrary motion." The best section of the symphony is the slow movement, an "Elegy" written on the death of Wagner, and in which Bruckner has utilised a theme from his own "Te Deum." " [keine Signatur].