Anton Bruckner composed his Fifth Symphony between 14 February 1875 and 16 May 1876, only to revise it between May 1877 and 4 January 1878; he continued to make sporadic changes to it through 1887. Despite all that, in the case of this symphony, and in contrast to the first four and the eighth of his numbered symphonies, there is only one version that issued from Bruckner’s pen. Bruckner heard it only once, and then only in a two-piano arrangement by Josef Schalk (1857-1900). This provisional pr...