This latest addition to our composer biography series honors Anton Bruckner on the 200th anniversary year of his birth. Bruckner, a devout Roman Catholic, spent years as a chorister at the Monastery of St. Florian and later he served as the cathedral organist in Linz, where he established a reputation for his improvisatory skills. He composed dozens of choral settings of masses, requiems, psalms, and a Te Deum, in addition to his nine symphonies, plus numerous sketches and revisions. Lots of revisions! Bruckner worked during a period of changing musical tastes and styles, and while his music was indebted to the traditions of Schubert and Beethoven, he was increasingly drawn to the “new” music of Wagner and Liszt. Episode 5 of 5.