I can’t speak for others with my many flaws . but for me something knocks me over
at first hearing or never .
It is generally true for me too....
But there is sometimes exception...
I listened to all Bruckner symphonies and the one i like the less after many listening became the one i love the most because of his depth and meaning...It was impossible for me to grasp that at first listening... For example the 6-7-8-9 th are all more easy and beautiful to listen... But the 5th is so deep in expressing life mystereies that beauty is not the word... When beauty and truth married i call that the deepest meaning... Try it.... The music recreated through his themas and motives repeated in the finale long fugue the remembered meaning of a human life after death...
The symphony is a wheel circling us like our life did....