Max Bruch: His Life and Works
In this book - the only full-length study of the composer - the author provides a richly documented account of Bruch's career as music director and composer.

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 hiscontemporary 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 composer, including a spell with the Liverpool Philharmonic Societyfrom 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 writeron 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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Max Bruch: His Life and Works
In this book - the only full-length study of the composer - the author provides a richly documented account of Bruch's career as music director and composer.

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 hiscontemporary 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 composer, including a spell with the Liverpool Philharmonic Societyfrom 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 writeron 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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Max Bruch: His Life and Works

Max Bruch: His Life and Works

by Christopher Fifield
Max Bruch: His Life and Works

Max Bruch: His Life and Works

by Christopher Fifield

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In this book - the only full-length study of the composer - the author provides a richly documented account of Bruch's career as music director and composer.

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 hiscontemporary 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 composer, including a spell with the Liverpool Philharmonic Societyfrom 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 writeron 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.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781843831365
Publisher: BOYDELL & BREWER INC
Publication date: 07/15/2005
Pages: 408
Product dimensions: 6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x (d)

Table of Contents

Preface11
Origins15
IChildhood and Youth 1838-5817
IIYears of Study 1858-6024
IIIMannheim 1861-6334
IVFolksong and Frithjof 186447
VCoblenz 1865-6859
VISonderhausen 1867-7079
VIIBergisch Gladbach: Igeler Hog94
VIIISonderhausen: the Compositions 1867-70104
IXFreelance Composer: Berlin 1870-73120
XFreelance Composer: Bonn 1873-78138
XIReturn to Berlin 1878-80158
XIILiverpool 1880-83174
XIIIBreslau 1883-90204
XIVBerlin I 1891-97237
XVBerlin II 1898-1911266
XVIThe Final Years 1911-20294
XVIIPostlude325
Notes331
List of Works338
Bibliography341
Index343
Bruch's Works343
Other Works345
Names346
Afterword to the New Edition353
Max Bruch in Sonderhausen (1867-1870)358
Additional Bibliography393
New Editions394
Select Discography395
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