Curiously, just the other day I was listening to a recording of the original 1873 version of Bruckner's Third Symphony. At 77 minutes long it's 20 minutes longer than the 1877 second version and a whopping 27 minutes longer than the final 1889 version (both of which I also listened to - I prefer the original).
The original version was only published in 1977, 81 years after Bruckner's death - though I was not aware that the original was considered a symptom of declining health, so maybe ...
