Bruckner composed the song on a text of Heinrich von der Mattig on 19 October 1877 in memory of his friend Joseph Seiberl, who died on 10 June 1877. The piece was performed nine days later by the Liedertafel Sängerbund in the St. Florian Abbey. The work, of which the original manuscript is stored in the Library of Congress in Washington, was first issued in Band XXIII/2, No. 28a of the Gesamtausgabe.
Original Name | Nachruf |
Librettist | Heinrich von der Mattig |
Date of composition | 1877 (19 October 1877) in Vienna, Austria |
Premiered | 1877, October 28th (Abbey) in Sankt Florian, Austria |
First published | 1911, Universal Edition in Vienna, Austria |
Dedicated to | Joseph Seiberl |
Type | Song(s) |
Tonality | C Minor |
Catalogue | WAB 81 |
Spoken language | German |
Instruments |
Male Chorus
Organ |
Arrangements |
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Anton Bruckner: "Music, the Comforter", WAB 88
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Autotranslations beta |
Anton Bruckner: "Obituary" en do mineur, WAB 81 Anton Bruckner: "Obituary" in do minore, WAB 81 Anton Bruckner: "Obituary" c-moll, WAB 81 |