> The Baffling Case of Anton Bruckner
> by H. Robbins Landon
> From High Fidelity (mid 1960s)
>
> A couple of years ago, Vienna's famous concert organization, the
> Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde, sent out to its subscribers a
> questionnaire asking them what kind of music they wanted to hear,
> which composers, which works. Of the 4,000 persons queried, only 1,086
> replied; on the whole, however, their preferences may be taken as
> representative of those of the average conservative concertgoer in
> Vienna. The answers were tabulated in two ways: first, by composer;
> then by specific works. As anyone familiar with postwar Vienna might
> surmise, Anton Bruckner came out on top, by...

> Anton Bruckner came out on top, by a comfortable margin:
> Bruckner, 337; Mozart, 277; Franz Schmidt, 270;

> The Baffling Case of Anton Bruckner
> by H. Robbins Landon
> From High Fidelity (mid 1960s)
>
> A couple of years ago, Vienna's famous concert organization, the
> Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde, sent out to its subscribers a
> questionnaire asking them what kind of music they wanted to hear,
> which composers, which works. Of the 4,000 persons queried, only 1,086
> replied; on the whole, however, their preferences may be taken as
> representative of those of the average conservative concertgoer in
> Vienna. The answers were tabulated in two ways: first, by composer;
> then by specific works. As anyone familiar with postwar Vienna might
> surmise, Anton Bruckner came out on top, by a comfortable margin:
> Bruckner, 337; Mozart, 277; Franz Schmidt, 270; Beethoven, 257; Haydn,
> 244; Richard Strauss, 244-and so on down to Schoenberg (77), Webern
> (71), and Prokofiev (66). As for particular works, Bruckner's Eighth
> Symphony won at 377 (Mozart's Jupiter got only 100 votes).
>
> For those unfamiliar with the phenomenon of Bruckner in Austria, it ...

> The Baffling Case of Anton Bruckner
> by H. Robbins Landon
> From High Fidelity (mid 1960s)
>

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>> The Baffling Case of Anton Bruckner
>> by H. Robbins Landon
>> From High Fidelity (mid 1960s)

>
> Consiglio di andare a ripescare cosa diceva Massimo Mila nella sua "Breve
> storia della Musica".
> Parere da prendere con le molle, ma pur sempre di Mila.
>
> EF

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>> The Baffling Case of Anton Bruckner
>> by H. Robbins Landon
>> From High Fidelity (mid 1960s)

>
> Consiglio di andare a ripescare cosa diceva Massimo Mila nella sua "Breve
> storia della Musica".
> Parere da prendere con le molle, ma pur sempre di Mila.
>
> EF

> Sempre se ho ben capito, questo sondaggio è degli anni Sessanta: oggi
> probabilmente ci sarebbero risultati un po' diversi.
>
> Saluti,
>
> Mauro