Bruckner, Anton. (1824 -1896). Intermezzo For String Quintet - Copyist Manuscript with Bruckner's Autograph Controlmark. Autograph controlmark of the composer "ABr." at the conclusion of a copyist manuscript in an unknown hand. 7 pp., on manuscript paper of 18 systems, loose, folio. Titled at the head "Intermezzo. - III. Satz (No 2) (zum Quintett.)" with the composer's name given upper right "Anton Bruckner (Dez. 1879)", tempo indicated "Molto moderato (Sehr mässig)" and dated more precisely "21 Dez. 1879" at the conclusion. Evidently one of the first fair copies of the manuscript, composed in the same year and bearing the elusive control mark in the hand of the influential Austrian composer and organist, from whom any autograph material is extremely rare. Creases, disbound with moderate edge wear, otherwise fine throughout.
Bruckner composed his Quintet For Strings in 1879, between his Fifth and Sixth Symphonies, at the request of the Vienna Conservatory's director, Joseph Hellmesberger, Sr., leader of a celebrated string quartet. Dissatisfied with the work's "curious, elfin scherzo", he asked Bruckner for a replacement and Bruckner then composed this alternative Scherzo, the Intermezzo (WAB 113), in the same key (D minor) as the original and using the same trio section, but with a slower tempo and less technically challenging. The Quintet was nonetheless premiered as Bruckner originally composed it and was one of the few Bruckner works to achieve immediate popular and critical acclaim. The delightful Intermezzo was not publicly premiered until after the composer's death. Although, as reviewer Wayne Reisig remarks, Bruckner "never wrote anything which could be termed 'pops' beyond the Austrian-German border", the Intermezzo might be considered in that genre: it is a "sunny little work saturated with the feel of the Tyrol."
Bruckner composed his Quintet For Strings in 1879, between his Fifth and Sixth Symphonies, at the request of the Vienna Conservatory's director, Joseph Hellmesberger, Sr., leader of a celebrated string quartet. Dissatisfied with the work's "curious, elfin scherzo", he asked Bruckner for a replacement and Bruckner then composed this alternative Scherzo, the Intermezzo (WAB 113), in the same key (D minor) as the original and using the same trio section, but with a slower tempo and less technically challenging. The Quintet was nonetheless premiered as Bruckner originally composed it and was one of the few Bruckner works to achieve immediate popular and critical acclaim. The delightful Intermezzo was not publicly premiered until after the composer's death. Although, as reviewer Wayne Reisig remarks, Bruckner "never wrote anything which could be termed 'pops' beyond the Austrian-German border", the Intermezzo might be considered in that genre: it is a "sunny little work saturated with the feel of the Tyrol."
Bruckner, Anton. (1824 -1896). Intermezzo For String Quintet - Copyist Manuscript with Bruckner's Autograph Controlmark. Autograph controlmark of the composer "ABr." at the conclusion of a copyist manuscript in an unknown hand. 7 pp., on manuscript paper of 18 systems, loose, folio. Titled at the head "Intermezzo. - III. Satz (No 2) (zum Quintett.)" with the composer's name given upper right "Anton Bruckner (Dez. 1879)", tempo indicated "Molto moderato (Sehr mässig)" and dated more precisely "21 Dez. 1879" at the conclusion. Evidently one of the first fair copies of the manuscript, composed in the same year and bearing the elusive control mark in the hand of the influential Austrian composer and organist, from whom any autograph material is extremely rare. Creases, disbound with moderate edge wear, otherwise fine throughout.
Bruckner composed his Quintet For Strings in 1879, between his Fifth and Sixth Symphonies, at the request of the Vienna Conservatory's director, Joseph Hellmesberger, Sr., leader of a celebrated string quartet. Dissatisfied with the work's "curious, elfin scherzo", he asked Bruckner for a replacement and Bruckner then composed this alternative Scherzo, the Intermezzo (WAB 113), in the same key (D minor) as the original and using the same trio section, but with a slower tempo and less technically challenging. The Quintet was nonetheless premiered as Bruckner originally composed it and was one of the few Bruckner works to achieve immediate popular and critical acclaim. The delightful Intermezzo was not publicly premiered until after the composer's death. Although, as reviewer Wayne Reisig remarks, Bruckner "never wrote anything which could be termed 'pops' beyond the Austrian-German border", the Intermezzo might be considered in that genre: it is a "sunny little work saturated with the feel of the Tyrol."
Bruckner composed his Quintet For Strings in 1879, between his Fifth and Sixth Symphonies, at the request of the Vienna Conservatory's director, Joseph Hellmesberger, Sr., leader of a celebrated string quartet. Dissatisfied with the work's "curious, elfin scherzo", he asked Bruckner for a replacement and Bruckner then composed this alternative Scherzo, the Intermezzo (WAB 113), in the same key (D minor) as the original and using the same trio section, but with a slower tempo and less technically challenging. The Quintet was nonetheless premiered as Bruckner originally composed it and was one of the few Bruckner works to achieve immediate popular and critical acclaim. The delightful Intermezzo was not publicly premiered until after the composer's death. Although, as reviewer Wayne Reisig remarks, Bruckner "never wrote anything which could be termed 'pops' beyond the Austrian-German border", the Intermezzo might be considered in that genre: it is a "sunny little work saturated with the feel of the Tyrol."