Bruckner Gesamtausgabe


The Bruckner Gesamtausgabe is a critical edition of the works of Anton Bruckner. Published by in Vienna, it comprises three successive editions.
  • Alte Gesamtausgabe
    This first edition included 'hybrid' scores for Symphonies Nos. 2 and 8 and other similar conflations for some other revised works.
  • Neue Gesamtausgabe
    In this new edition Nowak et al. went about publishing several versions of some works, in the process correcting some mistakes of Haas. From 1990 onwards, William Carragan, Paul Hawkshaw, Benjamin-Gunnar Cohrs et al. were in the process of reviewing and further correcting the work of Haas and Nowak.
  • Anton Bruckner Gesamtausgabe
    In 2011 it has been decided to issue a new edition, which will include the content of the current edition and integrate the in the meantime retrieved sources.

Content of the first edition

Twenty-two volumes were foreseen, of which twelve were issued:
  • Volume 1: Symphony No. 1, "Linz version" and "Vienna version", edited by Robert Haas, 1935
  • Volume 2: Symphony No. 2, edited by Robert Haas, 1938
  • Volume 3:
  • Volume 4: Symphony No. 4, second version with 1880 Finale – 1878 Volksfest Finale, edited by Robert Haas, 1936
  • Volume 5: Symphony No. 5, edited by Robert Haas, 1935
  • Volume 6: Symphony No. 6, edited by Robert Haas, 1935
  • Volume 7: Symphony No. 7, edited by Robert Haas, 1944
  • Volume 8: Symphony No. 8, edited by Robert Haas, 1939
  • Volume 9: Symphony No. 9, edited by Alfred Orel, 1934
  • Volume 10: –
  • Volume 11: Four Orchestral Pieces, edited by Alfred Orel, 1934
  • Volume 12: –
  • Volume 13: Mass No. 2, second version, edited by Robert Haas and Leopold Nowak 1940
  • Volume 14: Mass No. 3, edited by Robert Haas, 1944
  • Volume 15: Requiem and Missa solemnis, edited by Robert Haas, 1930

Content of the second edition

New ongoing edition