Question: American composer John Adams cites the work of a composer from what country that is best know for his symphonies, masses, and motets?

Context articles: Absolute Jest
Hallelujah Junction
Gnarly Buttons
American Standard (Adams)
Harmonium (Adams)
John Adams (miniseries)
On the Transmigration of Souls
Naïve and Sentimental Music
Anton Bruckner
Slonimsky's Earbox

Absolute Jest is a concerto for string quartet and orchestra by the American composer John Adams.
 The work was commissioned by the San Francisco Symphony for the orchestra's centennial.
 Its world premiere was given at the Louise M. Davies Symphony Hall on March 15, 2012, and was performed by the St. Lawrence String Quartet and the San Francisco Symphony under the direction of Michael Tilson Thomas.
 However, after the premiere Adams heavily re-wrote the beginning of the piece; this revised version of "Absolute Jest" was first performed in Miami Beach on December 1, 2012, by the St. Lawrence String Quartet and the New World Symphony under the composer's direction.
Hallelujah Junction is a piece written in 1996 for two pianos by the American composer John Adams.
 Adams titled his autobiography after this composition.
 A two-CD retrospective album of works by Adams on the Nonesuch label is also entitled "Hallelujah Junction", but does not include the composition.
Gnarly Buttons is a composition for solo clarinet and chamber ensemble by the American composer John Adams.
 The London Sinfonietta and Present Music (Milwaukee, Wisconsin) co-commissioned the work.
 The work received its premiere at the Queen Elizabeth Hall in London on October 19, 1996 with the London Sinfonietta, Michael Collins as solo clarinetist and the composer conducting.
 The work received its first Proms performance on 23 July 1998, conducted by Markus Stenz.
 The New York City premiere was in October 1997, with David Shifrin as the clarinet soloist and Ransom Wilson conducting musicians of the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center.
American Standard is an early ensemble work by noted American composer John Adams.
 It consists of three movements: a march, a hymn, and a jazz standard.
 The piece in its entirety has only been recorded once for commercial release, by Adams himself.
 The middle movement, "Christian Zeal and Activity", has achieved individual notability.
Harmonium is a composition for chorus and orchestra that could be considered a choral symphony in all but name, by the American composer John Adams, written in 1980-1981 for the first season of Davies Symphony Hall in San Francisco, California.
 The work is based on poetry by John Donne and Emily Dickinson.
 It is regarded as one of the key compositions of Adams' "minimalist" period.
 The San Francisco Symphony and the San Francisco Symphony Chorus, with conductor Edo de Waart, gave the premiere of the work on 15 April 1981, and subsequently recorded it.
 The UK premiere was on 13 October 1987 at Birmingham Town Hall, with the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra (CBSO) conducted by Simon Rattle.
 Rattle and the CBSO gave the London premiere on 28 July 1990 at The Proms.
John Adams is a 2008 American television miniseries chronicling most of U.S. President John Adams's political life and his role in the founding of the United States.
 Paul Giamatti portrays John Adams.
 The miniseries was directed by Tom Hooper.
 Kirk Ellis wrote the screenplay based on the book "John Adams" by David McCullough.
 The biopic of John Adams and the story of the first fifty years of the United States was broadcast in seven parts by HBO between March 16 and April 20, 2008.
 "John Adams" received widespread critical acclaim and many prestigious awards.
 The show won four Golden Globe awards and thirteen Emmy awards, more than any other miniseries in history.
On the Transmigration of Souls is a composition for orchestra, chorus, children's choir, and pre-recorded tape by the American composer John Adams (born 1947).
 It was commissioned by the New York Philharmonic and Lincoln Center's Great Performers (and an anonymous but prominent New York family) shortly after the September 11 terrorist attacks of 2001.
 Adams began writing the piece in late January 2002, and the music was premiered by the New York Philharmonic on September 19, 2002 at Avery Fisher Hall.
 The work is composed in a single movement and has a duration of approximately 25 minutes.
 Its sheet music is published by Boosey & Hawkes.
Naïve and Sentimental Music is a symphonic work by the American composer John Adams.
 The title of the work alludes to an essay by Friedrich Schiller, "On Naïve and Sentimental Poetry", that contrasts a creative personality that creates art for its own sake (the "naïve") versus one conscious of other purposes, such as art’s place in history (the "sentimental").
 The composer cites both the slowly developing harmonies of Bruckner's Fourth Symphony and the atmosphere of the Sonoma coastline (where the piece was composed) as inspirations for the work.
 The piece was co-commissioned by the Los Angeles Philharmonic, the Ensemble Modern, the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra, and the Sydney Symphony Orchestra.
 It received its first public performance by the Los Angeles Philharmonic conducted by Esa-Pekka Salonen on February 19, 1999.
 A recording by Salonen and the Los Angeles Philharmonic was subsequently released by Nonesuch Records.
Josef Anton Bruckner (] ; (1824--)04 1824 (1896--)11 1896 ) was an Austrian composer best known for his symphonies, masses, and motets.
 The first are considered emblematic of the final stage of Austro-German Romanticism because of their rich harmonic language, strongly polyphonic character, and considerable length.
 Bruckner's compositions helped to define contemporary musical radicalism, owing to their dissonances, unprepared modulations, and roving harmonies.
Slonimsky's Earbox is an orchestral work written in 1996 by American composer John Adams.
 The world premiere was given by the Halle Orchestra, conducted by Kent Nagano on September 11, 1996 as part of the opening night celebrations for Manchester's Bridgewater Hall.
 The piece is based on Igor Stravinsky's work "Le chant du rossignol", as Adams was drawn to the modal harmonies that Stravinsky employed.
 It is a step toward integrating standard minimalist techniques with a more complex contrapuntal style.
 It is approximately 13 minutes in length.