Music for God
by . Philosophical Library, $3.75.
This heartfelt and unpretentious novel is an attempt to interpret, in a unified storytelling form, the life, musical works, and philosophy of the Austrian composer Anton Bruckner. Written with fervor, simplicity, and integrity of spirit, Music for God yet shares that distracting fault common to functional biographies of being neither flesh, fowl, nor good red herring. The line between fact and fancy is dissolved; one never knows where the biographee ends and the biographer begins. Further, Miss Weiser devotedly refuses him a single flaw — a constriction which tends to diminish Bruckner’s dimensions rather than increase his stature. The portrait that emerges has consistency and nobility, but lacks either the reality of uncolored historical accuracy or that other reality one gets from the literary accuracy of a created, fictional character.