Compositions by Max Bruch - Max Bruch, Concerto for Two Pianos and Orchestra, Violin Concerto No. 1, Scottish Fantasy, Violin Concerto No. 3 (Paperback)

Chapters: Max Bruch, Concerto for Two Pianos and Orchestra, Violin Concerto No. 1, Scottish Fantasy, Violin Concerto No. 3, List of compositions by Max Bruch, Kol Nidrei, Concerto for Clarinet, Viola, and Orchestra, Violin Concerto No. 2, Violin Serenade, . Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 37. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Max Christian Friedrich Bruch (6 January 1838 - 2 October 1920), also known as Max Karl August Bruch, was a German Romantic composer and conductor who wrote over 200 works, including three violin concertos, one of which is a staple of the violin repertoire. Bruch was born in Cologne, Rhine Province, where he received his early musical training under the composer and pianist Ferdinand Hiller, to whom Robert Schumann dedicated his piano concerto. Ignaz Moscheles recognized his aptitude. He had a long career as a teacher, conductor and composer, moving among musical posts in Germany: Mannheim (1862-1864), Koblenz (1865-1867), Sondershausen, (1867-1870), Berlin (1870-1872), and Bonn, where he spent 1873-78 working privately. At the height of his reputation he spent three seasons as conductor of the Liverpool Philharmonic Society (1880-83). He taught composition at the Berlin Hochschule fur Musik from 1890 until his retirement in 1910. Bruch died in his house in Berlin-Friedenau. His conservatively structured works, in the German romantic musical tradition, placed him in the camp of Romantic classicism exemplified by Johannes Brahms, rather than the opposing "New Music" of Franz Liszt and Richard Wagner. In his time, he was known primarily as a choral composer. His Violin Concerto No. 1 in G minor, Op. 26 (1866) is one of the most popular Romantic violin concertos. It uses several techniques from Felix Mendelssohn's Violin Concerto in E minor. These include the link...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=1557