The New Bruckner: Compositional Development and the Dynamics of Revision

The New Bruckner provides a valuable study of Bruckners music, focusing on the interaction of biography, textual scholarship, reception history and analysis. Dermot Gault corrects longstanding misconceptions about the composers revision process and traces Bruckners constantly evolving engagement with symphonic form by taking each revision in due order and by relating the symphonies to other mature works. He argues that Bruckners music became more organic and less schematic as the result of his revisions.