ABSTRACT
The apotheosis began with the ceremony in which his embalmed body was laid to rest in an ornate metal sarcophagus in the crypt of St Florian, directly under the Bruckner Organ, where it is watched from behind a grille by the skulls of thousands of medieval monks. Germany and Austria had undergone the traumas of war, defeat and revolution and, to quote Max Auer, in their hour of need, the people called for spiritual and artistic leadership. Textual issues were beginning to emerge, eventually to erupt into the Hllenskandal foreseen by Josef Schalk. The Seventh Symphony was the last of the Haas editions to be published, and it presents, superficially, as one of his least revisionist scores. Nowak had been employed by the NB since 1937, and his membership of a Catholic organization may have helped to make him acceptable in the post-war climate, relations between the Nazis and the Vatican.
