August Stradal [SEP] date of death
August Stradal
August Stradal (17 May 1860, Teplice, Bohemia – 13 March 1930, Krásná Lípa) was a Bohemian virtuoso pianist, arranger and music teacher. A diverse piano arranger, Stradal arranged music from Bach, Beethoven, Brahms, Buxtehude, Liszt, Mozart, Paganini, Purcell, Reubke, Strauss, Wagner and Vivaldi.
A student of Anton Bruckner, he made solo piano arrangements of that composer's symphonies 1, 2, 5, 6, and 8. His pianistic credentials included studies with both
was supposed to have envisioned his Te Deum as the possible end of the symphony. When the conductor Hans Richter (1843-1916) visited Bruckner, he told him (translated from German):
Auer continued, about a possible transition to the Te Deum, in the biography (translated from German): 
August Göllerich, Anton Meißner, August Stradal and Theodor Altwirth, persons who knew Bruckner personally and were familiar with him, reported in unison that Bruckner was no longer able to complete an instrumental finale: "