Symphony No. 8

Symphony No. 8 in C minor is the eighth symphony by Austrian composer Anton Bruckner, composed in 1887 with a major revision completed in 1890. The work is a large-scale late-Romantic symphony characterised by dense polyphonic textures, expansive brass writing and climactic harmonic progressions, and it occupies a pivotal place in Bruckner's output and in the development of late nineteenth-century symphonic music.