英译本如下：
While thus my outward Lebensraum expanded, I was vouchsafed
the good fortune to discover new land in my very own domain,
yes, in my own soul: I found Bruckner. Strange, that I had
to grow almost fifty years before recognizing a genius who, at
about the same age, had begun to create his great works. He wrote
his Mass in F-minor when he was forty-four and the Third, which
marks the beginning of his important symphonies, at the age of
forty-nine. I had known Bruckner's works for many years without
really coming close to them. I expended a good deal of zealous effort
on occasional performances of his symphonies in Munich,
Berlin, and Vienna. But with all my love of his themes, with all
my admiration of the wealth and sublimity of his inspiration, I had
felt "outside." His form had been unintelligible to me; I had considered
it out of proportion, exaggerated, and primitive. The emotional
substance of his music had stirred me by its soulful force
and depth and delighted me by its occasional Austrian charm, but
I had not been able to feel at home on his soil. To move without
restraint within the monumental edifice of Bruckner's work had
seemed to be denied me. All at once, a change came over me. The
increased maturity and deeper tranquillity gained during my illness
may have had sdmething to do with it. For Bruckner, though
he is a pure musician and though his symphonies, having their origin
in elemental musical sources, are so far removed from thought
associations, yet demands a certain fundamental spiritual frame
of mind before he can be understood and loved. The Gothicism
of the Cologne Cathedral had remained unfathomable to me;
that of Bruckner's symphonies for a kind of musical Gothicism
is here involved was now revealed to me. I recognized in the
melodic substance, in the towering climaxes, and in the emotional
world of his symphonies the great soul of their creator, pious and
childlike. This stirring recognition, in turn, made me comprehend
effortlessly the substance and form of his music. I can hardly express
in words the importance Bruckner's work has since gained
in my life, to what degree my admiration for the beauty and symphonic
power of his music has increased, what ever more richly
flowing source of exaltation it has grown to be.