Bruckner's music embodies the visions of a devout, ordinary man. Parts of his expansive, shimmering musical landscapes are influenced by Wagner, but one can also detect Schubert, who began life in similar circumstances. The reposeful piety which runs through Bruckner's symphonic spectrum lends his music its unique power of attraction.

Well over a hundred years after Anton Bruckner's death, the discussions about him on the part of music historians and performers are not yet at an end. Anton Bruckner was a composer who flagrantly contradicted the spirit of his era. No other body of music has had to wait such a long time to gain the acknowledgement of audiences at large.