The adagio, on the other hand, reveals a feeling for emotional beauty of no ordinary kind, and doubtless it is writing of this character, which is found also in the slow movements of the Orchestral Symphonies, that explains the effect which Bruckner’s works have created on the Continent.
3rd Movement, String Quintett in F.
Anton Bruckner.
Hanslick on Bruckner’s Works
Krehbiel on Bruckner’s Seventh Symphony