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þe olde Bruckner & Wagner T-shirt

Of course you want your own Bruckner-obsequiously-shaking-Wagner's-hand T-shirt.

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It is a silhouette by Otto Böhler, taken from Werner Wolff's Anton Bruckner Rustic Genius. To print this, download this TIF, open it in Photoshop/GIMP/whatever, and use the TIF to create a layer with a silhouette of Bruckner & Wagner in your own choice of color. The background can be white if you intend to print using an iron-press. Note that if the shirt itself is not white, the color in the PSD should be lighter than the desired result. The color will be a composite of the printed-ink and the shirt's dye.

From the Preface:

While I was studying law at the University of Berlin and pursuing music under the instruction of Engelbert Humperdinck, I heard the first performance of Bruckner's Ninth Symphony under the direction of Arthur Nikisch. I wrote in my diary: "I am overwhelmed. It makes me suffer. It works in me and on me with the power of a catastrophe of nature. The rhythm of the clarinets at the end of the First Movement over the inexorable organ point on D will never cease haunting me."

Inexorable indeed:

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