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Max Bruch

His Life and Works

By: Christopher Fifield

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Paperback | 15 July 2005

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Max Bruch (1838-1920), the German composer best known for his Violin Concerto in G minor, was in his day, a famous conductor and teacher as well as a prolific composer; yet he has been sadly neglected, perhaps in comparison to his contemporary Brahms. In this book - the only full-length study of Bruch - the author provides a richly documented account of Bruch's career as music director and conductor, including a spell with the Liverpool Philharmonic Society from 1880-1883, and as a teacher at the Royal Academy of Arts in Berlin from 1892 until his retirement in 1911, where Vaughan Williams was one his pupils; he paints a picture of a proud and sensitive man, whose talents were perhaps left behind at a time of rapid musical development. The book also offers a musical analysis of his one hundred published works, including three operas. CHRISTOPHER FIFIELD is foremost a conductor, but also a writer on music history (Grove, DNB, Viking Opera Guide, Oxford Companion to Music), the author of a biography of Hans Richter, the editor of the letters and diaries of Kathleen Ferrier, and a recent history of the music agents Ibbs and Tillett.

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The return of Fifield's excellent biography to the ranks of books in print is very welcome indeed. * H-NET REVIEWS *
Bruch deserves a full-scale study and this is what he and his music gets...This is the work on Bruch but its merit lies not only in being the only book but in the detail, pacing and presentation of Bruch's life. The humanising communicative faculty that Mr Fifield brings to bear lifts the book from mere gap-filling as does its evident determination to lift Bruch from the slough of one-work composers. In all these ways the book and its author bears the laurels of victory. * MUSIC WEB INTERNATIONAL *
Richly documented account of Bruch's career. * TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT *

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Preface	p. 11
Origins	p. 15
Childhood and Youth 1838-58	p. 17
Years of Study 1858-60	p. 24
Mannheim 1861-63	p. 34
Folksong and Frithjof 1864	p. 47
Coblenz 1865-68	p. 59
Sonderhausen 1867-70	p. 79
Bergisch Gladbach: Igeler Hog	p. 94
Sonderhausen: the Compositions 1867-70	p. 104
Freelance Composer: Berlin 1870-73	p. 120
Freelance Composer: Bonn 1873-78	p. 138
Return to Berlin 1878-80	p. 158
Liverpool 1880-83	p. 174
Breslau 1883-90	p. 204
Berlin I 1891-97	p. 237
Berlin II 1898-1911	p. 266
The Final Years 1911-20	p. 294
Postlude	p. 325
Notes	p. 331
List of Works	p. 338
Bibliography	p. 341
Index	p. 343
Bruch's Works	p. 343
Other Works	p. 345
Names	p. 346
Afterword to the New Edition	p. 353
Max Bruch in Sonderhausen (1867-1870)	p. 358
Additional Bibliography	p. 393
New Editions	p. 394
Select Discography	p. 395
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