ABSTRACT
This chapter presents some of the structural issues of concern to Bruckner and apply his analytical terminology to examples from the Sonata movement, String Quartet, F minor Symphony and another Kitzler composition, the Overture in G Minor. The sonata movements in the F minor 'Student' Symphony, completed on 26 May, are far more extensive and harmonically adventuresome than anything Bruckner had yet done for Kitzler. Kitzler had to bring Bruckner up to date with contemporary practice, introduce him to much of the standard non-liturgical repertoire (to Beethoven's music in particular), and instruct him in the fundamentals of form and orchestration. Anton Bruckner received an extremely thorough and systematic, albeit conservative, grounding in both form and orchestration under Otto Kitzler. For the remainder of his life he regarded his 'liberation' from Kitzler as the beginning of his career as a professional composer.
