Symphony no. 7 in E-major, WAB 107 (1883 original version, unpublished)

The original 1883 version was performed at the work's premiere. Unfortunately it survives only in one autograph copy which includes later changes by Bruckner and others, so the exact contents of this version are lost. It remains unpublished.

Some changes were made after the 1884 premiere and were included by Alfred Gutmann in the first publication in 1885. It is widely accepted that Arthur Nikisch, Franz Schalk and Ferdinand Löwe had significant influence over this edition, but there is some debate over the extent to which these changes, which mostly affect tempo and orchestration, were authorized by Bruckner.

Robert Haas attempted to remove the influence of Nikisch, Schalk and Löwe in order to retrieve Bruckner's original conception of the symphony in his published edition of 1944. However, much of his work is considered subject to conjecture. The most prominent feature of Haas's edition is the absence of cymbals, triangle and timpani in the Adagio. Haas's assertion that Bruckner decided to omit the percussion has recently been deemed "implausible" by prominent Bruckner scholar Benjamin Korstvedt.

Leopold Nowak published a revised edition in 1954 in which he kept most of the features of the 1885 Gutmann edition, including the percussion. He reprinted the tempo modifications from Gutmann but placed them in brackets. Some performances of this edition omit the cymbal clash at the climax of the Adagio, although it is included in the printed score.