In The Observer Nr. 7160 (London) wird auf S. 5 ein Buch besprochen, in welchem Bruckner ein Kapitel gewidmet ist:

"           A MUSICAL CRITIC.

     The main interest in this book lies in the fact [...].

     Early in the book there comes an article, on that little known composer (as far as England is concerned), Anton Bruckner, which is a fair sample of the rest. The author has close acquaintanceship with the musical history of Vienna, Bruckner's home, and places him cheek by jowl with three other great Viennese composers, Schubert, Brahms and Johann Strauss. Presumably the article was written at a time when Dvorak, certainly Mahler, was still alive. In that case to say "We hear few new symphonies that are of vital interest" is unjustifiably sweeping. In this year of grace that sentence would have a force all its own. The author cannot escape the charge of premature (perhaps we might say prophetic) judgment here, although the slight lapse very interestingly shows that a alive musical mind was already aware, twenty-two years ago, of the disintegration of the symphony proper, which had begun some time before. Bruckner himself, who died in 1896, started it. Mahler, living and working on until 1911, was as great an offender and incidentally an altogether more important composer.

     The writer has many illuminating things to say about the thematic construction of "Aida." In that article he will surprise those opera-goers who have looked on Verdi's masterpiece chiefly as a hackneyed "favourite."  "

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