Bruckner's happy days in Hörsching were cut short when he was summoned back to Ansfelden by the end of 1836 because his father was ill. He had to relieve some of his father's duties. A happy ending it was not to be. His father died on 7 June 1837 at the age of 46, reportedly of consumption.
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| The grave of Bruckner's father |
The young Bruckner, not yet 13 at the time, had to begin a new phase in his life, separated from his beloved mother, in St. Florian, a place to be endlessly interwoven with him on earth and in heaven.
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