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Derek Watson
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Freelance writer and lecturer on music; composer and pianist. Musical Director, Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh, 1974–76. Author of Bruckner and many others.
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Anton Bruckner was an Austrian composer of a number of highly original and monumental symphonies. He was also an organist and teacher who composed much sacred and secular choral music. Bruckner was the son of a village schoolmaster and organist in Upper Austria. He showed talent on the violin and…
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