[hypothetische Datierung, auch 29.12.1901 denkbar]

Besprechungen der 5. Symphonie

 

durch William Foster Apthorp [vermutlich im Boston Transcript]:

"[...] the themes are of distinguished beauty, the working out is always original and often beautiful; the instrumentation while never calling attention to itself either by its beauty or its ugliness, gives one the feeling that not for a moment would anything else do. There is, back of all this, a tremendous power.",

 

durch Philip Hale [vermutlich im Boston Journal].

"Mr. Hale felt that Boston does not hear such music nearly often enough and yet he says: "To me Bruckner is dullest in this symphony." But he also calls it "a strange symphony, but a gigantic one, one that should not be put away for a dozen years. No doubt twenty years from now the work will seem logically simple.""

 

und durch Mr. Elson [vermutlich im Boston Advertiser]:

"... worth hearing and is worth studying, yet falls short of greatness and is chiefly interesting as a phase of modern development in music."