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7/14/2025, 5:35:47 PM
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>It is incontestable that the Ninth Symphony by Bruckner first came to us in a version which was very different from the one Bruckner himself composed, and yet I am heretic enough to say I don't think every correction Ferdinand Loewe makes - and I happened to know Ferdinand Loewe quite well; he was a very good musician - I don't happen to think that all his corrections are very wrong.
I assume he's referring to Loewe's backup/replacement of the pizzicati passages for the violins/cellos during the beginning of the 2nd movement with solo flute and bassoon. I'm not so sure, it doesn't really sound like Bruckner to me. And his removal of the wind chords is complete garbage.
Loewe's biggest transgression comes in the Adagio, though, during the climax. Loewe smoothed over Bruckner's harmony to a ridiculous degree, making the dissonant and powerful climax far more limp than in the original.
>It is incontestable that the Ninth Symphony by Bruckner first came to us in a version which was very different from the one Bruckner himself composed, and yet I am heretic enough to say I don't think every correction Ferdinand Loewe makes - and I happened to know Ferdinand Loewe quite well; he was a very good musician - I don't happen to think that all his corrections are very wrong.
I assume he's referring to Loewe's backup/replacement of the pizzicati passages for the violins/cellos during the beginning of the 2nd movement with solo flute and bassoon. I'm not so sure, it doesn't really sound like Bruckner to me. And his removal of the wind chords is complete garbage.
Loewe's biggest transgression comes in the Adagio, though, during the climax. Loewe smoothed over Bruckner's harmony to a ridiculous degree, making the dissonant and powerful climax far more limp than in the original.
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