Complex sentence: Bruckner composed the elegy for the funeral of Michael Arneth, the prior of the St. Florian Abbey; it was performed on 28 March 1854 at the cemetery of the abbey.
Split into simpler sentences: Bruckner composed the elegy for the funeral of Michael Arneth, the prior of the St. Florian Abbey. It was performed on 28 March 1854 at the cemetery of the abbey.