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The composer Anton Bruckner ( 1824 – 96 ), who was a choirboy and later organist here, is buried beneath the organ inside the monastic church, which was elevated to the rank of basilica minor in 1999.
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Bruckner is the first composer since Schubert about whom it is possible to make such generalizations.
At first, these processes seemed so strange and unprecedented that they were taken as evidence of sheer incompetence .... Now it is recognized that Bruckner's unorthodox structural methods were inevitable .... Bruckner created a new and monumental type of symphonic organism, which abjured the tense, dynamic continuity of Beethoven, and the broad, fluid continuity of Wagner, in order to express something profoundly different from either composer, something elemental and metaphysical.
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This cycle and a later Jochum Bruckner cycle, with the Staatskapelle Dresden for EMI, have been widely and frequently acclaimed and have caused his name to be especially associated with this composer.
The town is perhaps best known for being the birthplace of the composer and organist Anton Bruckner.
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Historically, Steyr has had a number of well-known residents or visitors, including Franz Schubert who wrote his " Trout Quintet " there while on holiday, composer Anton Bruckner, was the organist at the local pfarrkirche, or parish church.
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