A Slippedisc subscriber has written to Pope Leo, proposing the beatification of the Austrian composer.
Why not? Bruckner was Catholic,lived a blameless life and wrote screeds of sonorous solemnities for the mother Church.
Drop a line to Pope Leo, if you feel the same way.
Up here, in Schloss Slippedisc, we feel a bit differently.
If any composer ought to be beatified it is the wonderful Papa Haydn. Next in line, Giuseppe Verdi. Then Karl Amadeus Hartmann, the Bavarian anti-Nazi who saved many fugitive lives during the Hitler years.
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