Bruch, Max (Karl August)

Bruch, Max (Karl August)
born Jan. 6, 1838, Cologne, Prussia
died Oct. 2, 1920, Friedensau, near Berlin, Ger.

German composer.

Bruch held many conducting positions and taught for 20 years at the Berlin Academy. He was known in his lifetime principally for his many sacred and secular choral pieces, including Odysseus (1872) and Das Lied von der Glocke (1879). Today he is remembered especially for his first violin concerto (1868); he also wrote two further violin concertos, the cello variations Kol Nidrei (1881), and operas and symphonies.

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