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BRUCH, MAX (1838– )

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BRUCH, MAX (1838– ) , See also:German musical composer, son of a See also:city See also:official and See also:grandson of the famous Evangelical cleric, Dr See also:Christian Bruch, was See also:born at See also:Cologne on the 6th of See also:January 1838. From his See also:mother (nee Almenrader), a well-known musician of her See also:time, he learnt the elements of See also:music, but under Breidenstein he made his first serious effort at See also:composition at the See also:age of fourteen by the See also:production of a See also:symphony. In 1853 Bruch gained the See also:Mozart Stipendium of 400 gulden per annum for four years at See also:Frankfort-on-See also:Main, and for the following few years studied under See also:Hiller, See also:Reinecke and Breunung. Subsequently he lived from 1858 to 1861 as See also:pianoforte teacher at Cologne, in which city his first See also:opera (in one See also:act), Scherz, See also:List and Rache, was produced in 1858. On his See also:father's See also:death in 1861, Bruch began a tour of study at See also:Berlin, See also:Leipzig, See also:Vienna, See also:Munich, See also:Dresden and See also:Mannheim, where his opera See also:Lorelei was brought out in 1863. At Mannheim he lived till 1864, and there he wrote some of his best-known See also:works, including the beautiful Frithjof. After a further See also:period of travel he became musical-director at See also:Coblenz (1865–1867), Hofkapellmeister at See also:Sondershausen (1867–1870), and lived in Berlin (1871–1873), where he wrote his See also:Odysseus, his first See also:violin See also:concerto and two symphonies being composed at Sondershausen. After five years at See also:Bonn (1873–1878), during which he made two visits to See also:England, Bruch, in 1878, became conductor of the Stern Choral See also:Union; and in 188o of the See also:Liver-See also:pool Philharmonic. In 1892 he was appointed director of the Berlin Hochschule. In 1893 he was given the honorary degree of See also:Mus. Doc. by See also:Cambridge University. Max Bruch has written in almost every conceivable musical See also:form, invariably with straight-forward honest simplicity of See also:design.

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gift of refined See also:melody beyond the See also:common, his melodies being broad and suave and often exceptionally beautiful.

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