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Higher Consciousness presents:

If one were to ask the devout Bruckner why he composed music, he would have said, “To serve God”. He was not writing catchy melodies that you might hear today in grocery stores and commercials, but music for Bruckner was a spiritual quest. Whether writing a mass or a symphony, Bruckner’s music often takes on cosmic dimensions, and his nine symphonies have been called “cathedrals of sound”. He was an odd man, a country boy from Austria trying to find his way in urban musical worlds, but he slowly discovered his own musical world, offering each new work as if it were not his own, but God’s.