Bruckner 7 Symphony

Bruckner 7 Symphony

Lately I’ve been getting a lot of emails (more than usual) from readers thanking me for including classical music with my articles and sending out Saturday music. (If you are not subscribing to my music-only articles, you can do it here).

I have to say that I am the biggest beneficiary of my writing about classical music; it forces me to go wider and deeper into the music. It creates the discipline of allocating time not just to listen to music – something I’d be doing anyway – but to learn more about it. If I was not writing about it, I would not have dug into Anton Bruckner’s music, and I would not have spent hours reading about him.  

So thank you for reading my scribbles and writing to me.  

Listening to Bruckner’s music requires work (I wrote about Bruckner here). His music is not easy to grasp from the first listen (at least it wasn’t for me).  It lacks an arc – a large melody that carries through the whole symphony – but rather is full of wonderful, loosely connected small stories. The lack of a central melody makes his music more difficult to understand and is probably responsible for it being less popular. I had to listen to Symphony No. 7 – the symphony that made him famous – a dozen times before it clicked with me. 

Vitaliy Katsenelson is the CEO at IMA, a value investing firm in Denver. He has written two books on investing, which were published by John Wiley & Sons and have been translated into eight languages. Soul in the Game: The Art of a Meaningful Life (Harriman House, 2022) is his first non-investing book. You can get unpublished bonus chapters by forwarding your purchase receipt to bonus@soulinthegame.net.