Symphony No. 9 is the ninth symphony by Austrian composer Anton Bruckner, begun in 1887 and left unfinished at his death in 1896. Rooted in the late-Romantic tradition, it employs expansive orchestration, dense counterpoint and prolonged structural designs, culminating in an incomplete finale, and it serves as Bruckner's final major orchestral statement that encapsulates his late harmonic language and spiritual preoccupations.
