Symphony No. 1 (Bruckner)

Symphony No. 1
by Anton Bruckner
Portrait of Anton Bruckner, c. 1860
Key	C minor
Catalogue	WAB 101
Composed	1865–1866 (Linz version) 1890–1891 (Vienna version)
Dedication	University of Vienna
Movements	4

Anton Bruckner's Symphony No. 1 in C minor, WAB 101, was the first symphony the composer thought worthy of performing and bequeathing to the Austrian National Library. Chronologically it comes after the Study Symphony in F minor and before the "nullified" Symphony in D minor. (Symphony No. 2 in C minor was completed after the "nullified" Symphony in D minor.) The composer gave it the nickname Das kecke Beserl (The Saucy Maid), and conducted its 1868 premiere. Much later, after Bruckner was granted an honorary University of Vienna doctorate in 1891, he dedicated the 1890–1891 version of the work to that institution.