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Trip Slide ShowPictures can be seen as a slide show or individually. Captions are included where necessary. More pictures may be added during the month.
Bruckner monument at Ansfelden |
Grave of Anton Bruckner's father |
Bruckner's birth house (Geburthaus) |
Sign at entrance to Birth House Museum |
Schoolroom at the Geburthaus |
Living room at the Geburthaus |
Death mask at the Geburthaus |
Organ console used by Bruckner (now at the Geburthaus in Ansfelden) |
Sculpture in the birth room |
Bruckner sculpture at the Anton Bruckner Center in Ansfelden |
Symphonie-wanderweg map at Anton Bruckner Center |
One of the Wanderweg stations along the trail |
The road between Ansfelden and St. Florian |
The countryside between Ansfelden and St. Florian |
Welcome to St. Florian, Austria |
The Monastery at St. Florian |
Aerial view of the Monastery (postcard) |
Alter at St. Florian church |
Bruckner marker at the front entrance to the monastery church |
The Bruckner Organ at St. Florian |
My room at the St. Florian guesthouse |
Organ console at St. Florian |
Keys to the monastery gates |
Matthais Giesen offers me a private recital (Adagio from the String Quintet) |
Some stones from the original foundation (13th century) |
Bruckner and me (St. Florian crypt) |
Some of the bones behind Bruckner's sarcophagus |
I am tempted to take a nap |
Bruckner's Bosendorfer piano and other furnishings |
the BrucknerTag Committee takes me to dinner. (L-R:Guenther Pfisterer, Simon Windner, Klaus Laczika, Julian Gillesberger, Matthias Giesen, Franz Prammer |
The crypt door - two doors down from my room |
The garden outside my room |
The church towers from the garden |
My rental car parked inside the monastery |
Plaque for the Bruckner Glockenspiel in the Haupt Platz, Linz |
The Alten Dom (Old Cathedral) in Linz |
The Bruckner Organ in the Alten Dom (postcard) |
Brucknerstiege Exhibit marker |
One of the panels for the new Brucknerstiege Exhibit (on the stairs leading to the organ loft of the Alten Dom) |
A Bruckner bust as part of the Brucknerstiege Exhibit |
Alten Dom alter as seen from the organ loft |
Bruckner Organ console at the Alten Dom |
The original manual bellows in the Bruckner Organ |
The very faint written farewell by Bruckner on the Alten Dom organ console |
Bruckner plaque outside the Alten Dom in Linz |
Bruckner plaque outside the Linz Parish Church |
One of several buildings in Linz where Bruckner taught students and led choirs |
Bruckner led a choir here. The first floor is now occupied by the Anton Bruckner Institute |
The Danube River cruise ship, Anton Bruckner |
The Brucknerhaus Concert Hall in Linz |
The Mariendom (New Cathedral) in Linz (Postcard) |
Plaque in Mariendom commemorating the first performance of Bruckner's Mass in E Minor |
Stained glass panel in the Mariendom |
The Valhalla Shrine in Regenburg, Germany (Postcard) |
Valhalla (taken from the steps in front) |
A view of the Danube from Valhalla |
The Bruckner bust in Regensburg |
The Bruckner bust as it is placed today (Max Reger is on the right) |
This is a photo of me standing on the same spot that Hitler stood for his infamous picture at the installation of the Bruckner bust in 1937 |
My hotel in Ebrach, Germany |
Signing the register at the opening reception (Ken Ward and Stephen Pearsall are behind me) |
The chuch at the Ebrach Cloister (before the first concert) |
William Carragan and Gerd Schaller relaxing after the Bruckner 1st concert |
Closing the street for a rehearsal |
Bruckner fanatics listening to a closed rehearsal outside the church |
Dirk Borth, William Carragan and me. |
Ken Ward shows off his newly sculpted Bruckner bust |
Pia Molck-Ude and Ken Ward |
William Carragan with the score to the 1874 Symphony No. 3 |
The crack abruckner.com promotion team prepares to launch their Ebrach media blitz. |
The Bavarian Radio recording production van |
The breakfast crowd (Dietmar Achenbach, Ken Ward, William Carragan's friend, Inez, Werner de Smet, Stephen Pearsall, Lilo Achenbach |
Dietmar Achenbach, Ken Ward and I share a joke. Bruckner looks on admiringly. |
The closing reception: Dietmar and Lilo Achenbach, Horst Ernstberger, Stephen Pearsall, Ken Ward, John Berky. Photo by Heinz Sendler |
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