Cover -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Preface to the Second Edition -- Part One: A Character Portrait -- Who Was Bruckner? -- Authoritarianism and Self-Assurance -- The World as"Bad Lot" -- Neurosis -- Libido -- Emotionality -- The "Passionate Urge to Compose" -- Securing an Income -- Persecution Mania -- Worries about the Success of the Work -- Interest in the Extraordinary -- "Sympathy with Death" -- Religiosity -- Part Two: Sacred Music -- Personality and Oeuvre -- Music as Religious Confession -- A New, Dramatic Conception of the Mass -- The Credo Settings -- Religious Tone Symbolism -- Jubilant and Devout Music -- "Let Me Not Be Confounded in Eternity": The Te Deum -- Music as Song of Praise: Psalm 150 -- Part Three: The Symphonies -- The Fiction of "Absolute Music" -- Originality and Modernity -- Matters of Style -- How Bruckner Came to the Symphony -- Autobiographic Elements in the Second and Third Symphony -- The Allegiance to Richard Wagner -- The Triad of the Middle Symphonies -- The Seventh - a Second "Wagner Symphony" -- Secular and Religious -- Character Types in Bruckner -- Instrumental recitative and arioso -- Chorale -- March -- Funeral march -- Pastoral -- Landler -- Misterioso -- Solemn -- Imaginations - Bruckner's Associations in the Eighth -- The Ninth - Bruckner's "Farewell to Life" -- Reflections on the Bruckner Interpretation (Günter Wand, Eugen Jochum, Sergiu Celibidache) -- The Progressive -- Afterword -- Appendix -- Notes -- Part One: A Character Portrait -- Part Two: Sacred Music -- Part Three: The Symphonies -- Afterword -- Biographical Dates -- Abbreviations -- Works by Anton Bruckner -- Sacred Music -- The Symphonies -- Selective Bibliography -- Author's Papers -- Photo Credits -- Index of Names.