Symphony No. 3 (Bruckner)

Symphony No. 3
Symphony No. 3
by Anton Bruckner
	Dedication to Wagner
Key	D minor
Catalogue	WAB 103
Composed	1872–1873; 1876–1877; 1889;
Dedication	Richard Wagner
Published	1890 1950 (ed. Fritz Oeser) ; 1959 (ed. Leopold Nowak) (1889 version) ; 1977 (ed. Leopold Nowak) (1873 version) ; 1981 (ed. Leopold Nowak) (1877 version) ;
Recorded	1952 Hans Schmidt-Isserstedt, Berliner Sinfonie-Orchester
Movements	4
Premiere
Date	16 December 1877
Location	Vienna
Conductor	Anton Bruckner

Anton Bruckner's Symphony No. 3 in D minor, WAB 103, was dedicated to Richard Wagner and is sometimes known as his "Wagner Symphony". It was written in 1873, revised in 1877 and again in 1889.

The work has been characterised as "difficult", and is regarded by some as Bruckner's artistic breakthrough. According to Rudolf Kloiber, the third symphony "opens the sequence of Bruckner's masterpieces, in which his creativity meets monumental ability of symphonic construction." The work is notorious as the most-revised of Bruckner's symphonies, and there exist no fewer than six versions, with three of them being widely performed today.