The Symphonisches Präludium (Symphonic Prelude) in C minor is an orchestral composition by Anton Bruckner or his entourage, composed in 1876. The work was discovered shortly after World War II. Heinrich Tschuppik, who found the orchestral score of the work in the estate of Bruckner's pupil Rudolf Krzyzanowski (de), attributed the authorship to Bruckner. Thirty years later, Mahler scholar Paul Banks, who knew only a four-stave reduction of the work, attributed the work to Mahler and requested its orchestration. Based on the original orchestral score, it seems likely that the work was at least sketched by Bruckner, possibly as an exercise in orchestration for Krzyzanowski.

Original Name Symphonisches Präludium
Date of composition 1876 in Linz, Austria
Premiered 1949, September 7th in Munich, Germany
Type Prelude
Tonality C Minor
Instruments Orchestra
Autotranslations beta Anton Bruckner: Symphonic Prelude en do mineur
Anton Bruckner: Symphonic Prelude in do minore
Anton Bruckner: Symphonic Prelude c-moll