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Spokane Symphony photo
Eckart is back, baton in hand.
When the Austrian composer Anton Bruckner finished writing his Third Symphony in 1873, he dedicated it to Richard Wagner, the creator of the monumental Ring cycle and arguably the preeminent figure in music by that point. The dedication might seem like a touching gesture of friendship, but according to Eckart Preu, labeling the two as “friends” would be overstating things.
“Because Wagner was such a dominant person at the time, nobody could ignore him. Wagner was untouchable
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