BRUCKNER

Someone once asked Anton Bruckner: "Master, how, when, where did you think of the divine motif of your Ninth Symphony?" "Well, it was like this," Bruckner replied. "I walked up the Kahlenberg, and when it got hot and I got hungry, I sat down by a little brook and unpacked my Swiss cheese. And just as I open the greasy paper, that darn tune pops into my head!"

Telling his class that a critic had called him a second Beethoven, Bruckner said, "How can anybody dare to say such a thing!"