| Contents |
Childhood and youth, 1838-58 -- Years of study, 1858-60 -- Mannheim, 1861-63 -- Folksong and Frithjof, 1864 -- Coblenz, 1865-68 -- Sondershausen, 1867-70 -- Bergisch Gladbach: Igeler Hog -- Sondershausen: the compositions, 1867-70 -- Freelance composer: Berlin, 1870-73 -- Freelance composer: Bonn, 1873-78 -- Return to Berlin, 1878-80 -- Liverpool, 1880-83 -- Breslau, 1883-90 -- Berlin I, 1891-97 -- Berlin II, 1898-1911 -- The final years, 1911-20 -- Max Bruch in Sonderhausen (1867-1870). |
| Abstract |
Max Bruch (1838-1920), the German composer now best known for his first violin concerto, was renowned during his lifetime as a conductor and a teacher, as well as a prolific composer. He wrote operas, symphonies, choral works and many concertos and shorter pieces: violinists such as Joachim and Saraste premiered his works. During his career he held positions in Koblenz, Sonderhausen, Breslau and Berlin (where Vaughan Williams was briefly his composition pupil), and he was director of the Liverpool Philharmonic Society for three years (1880-1883). Bruch shared a musical affinity with Brahms, though the latter took greater risks, so while Bruch remained wedded to the stylistic heritage of Mendelssohn and Schumann throughout his life, composing in 1920 much as he had in the 1960s, other composers such as Richard Strauss. Stravinsky and Schoenberg moved on. This book - the only full-length study of Bruch - provides a richly documented account of Bruch's career, with musical analysis of his one hundred published works. |
| Bibliography note | Includes worklist (pages 338-340), bibliographical references (pages 341-342) and (page 393) , discography (pages 395-399) and indexes. |
| LCCN | 2005008715 |
| ISBN | 1843831368 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 9781843831365 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
