Kitzler Study Book
The Kitzler Study Book () is an autograph workbook of Anton Bruckner which he wrote taking tuition with the conductor and cellist Otto Kitzler in Linz. Bruckner tried to complete his knowledge in musical form and instrumentation with Kitzler after the end of his studies with Simon Sechter. Description. The workbook is composed of 163 pages of different sizes in landscape format (326 numbered pages) in chronological order, some of them dated, from (Holy Night, 1861) on p. 30, to 10 July 1863 on p. 325. The workbook contains autograph sketches, comments, complete and partial compositions, which are  displaying a rigorous tuition in musical formatting and instrumentation. The first entries (pp. 1-18) are exercises in musical form: cadences and periods. They are followed (pp. 18-57) by lieder in two and three parts, and (pp. 58-218) by pieces for piano and string quartet: waltz, polka, mazurka, études, theme and variations, rondos, sonata form, etc., and the String Quartet in C minor and its additional Rondo. The exercises in form are followed (pp. 218-250) by exercises of instrumentation, among others the orchestration of the first movement of Beethoven's "Sonate pathétique" (introduction and exposition, repetition and  coda). These exercises are followed (pp; 251-326) by Bruckner's first orchestral compositions: the Four Orchestral Pieces (March in D minor and Three Orchestral Pieces). The volume ends with sketches for the Overture in G minor and for the Symphony in F minor. Complete and partial compositions. A not exhaustive list: Edition and performances. Until 2015, only few of the compositions of the study book were published: the String Quartet, WAB 111 and the additional Rondo in C minor, WAB 208 (transcription allowed to Leopold Nowak), the "Sonatensatz" in G minor, WAB 243 (transcription allowed to Walburga Litschauer), and  the Four Orchestral Pieces, WAB 96-97 (issued from a clean transcription given by Bruckner to Cyrill Hynais). The Kitzler Study Book, which was first in possession of Bruckner's pupil Ferdinand Löwe, went later in private possession of Margarethe Mugrauer – the daughter of Josef Schalk – in Bamberg, who legated it to her daughter Traudl Kress in Munich. In 2013, the Austrian National Library was able to acquire the valuable original manuscript. In 2015, the MWV () has issued a colour facsimile of the manuscript and could so provide interested people with this important source for study and scholarship. On 30  April 2016, the Orchestergemeinschaft Nürnberg e.V. has premiered Bruckner's orchestration of the opening of the first movement of Beethoven's "Sonate pathétique", WAB 266 Other performances occurred on 6 and 7 October 2017 in Austin, TX by Colin Mawby with the Austin Symphonic Orchestra, and on 14 August 2021, during the "Brucknertage" 2021, in the Marmorsaal of the St. Florian Monastery by Jan Latham König with the Altomonte Orchestra. The Scherzo in G minor for string quartet was performed first in a transcription for string orchestra on 28 May 2016 by Benjamin-Gunnar Cohrs with the Göttinger Barockorchester . The original version of the two Scherzos in F Major and G Minor for string quartet, WAB 209 was premiered by the Bruckners Kammermusik ensemble in Tokyo on 8 March 2019. In 2018, a première of thirteen piano works from the Kitzler Study Book has been recorded by Ana-Marija Markovina. In 2019, Francesco Pasqualotto has recorded 21 piano works from the Kitzler Study Book, of which are 10 premiere recordings. In 2021, Todor Petrov has recorded 39 piano works from the Kitzler Study Book, of which 18 are premiere recordings. There are currently recordings available of 41 piano works  from the Kitzler Study Book On 5 October 2019, two lieder from the Kitzler Study Book ("O habt die Thräne gern", WAB 205, and "Vor der schlummernden Mutter", WAB 206) were recorded during the reading "Böck ist Bruckner II". Discography. Orchestration of the first movement of Beethoven's "Sonate pathétique": Piano works from the Kitzler Study Book: Lieder from the Kitzler Study Book: