MAX See also:

• MAX BRUCH (1838– )

BRUCH (1838– )  , See also:

• GERMAN
• GERMAN, DUTCH AND SCANDINAVIAN

German musical composer, son of a See also:

• CITY (through Fr. cite, from Lat. civitas)

city See also:

• OFFICIAL (Late Lat. QJicialis, for class. Lat. apparitor, from officium, office, duty)

official and See also:

• GRANDSON (Ger. Grandsee)

grandson of the famous Evangelical cleric, Dr See also:

• CHRISTIAN
• CHRISTIAN, WILLIAM (1608-1663)

Christian See also:

• BRUCH, MAX (1838– )

Bruch, was See also:

• BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born at See also:

• COLOGNE (Ger. Koln, or officially, since 1900, Coln)

Cologne on the 6th of See also:

• JANUARY

January 1838 . From his See also:

• MOTHER

mother (nee Almenrader), a well-known musician of her See also:

• TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
• TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
• TIME, STANDARD

time, he learnt the elements of See also:

• MUSIC

music, but under Breidenstein he made his first serious effort at See also:

• COMPOSITION
• COMPOSITION (Lat. compositio, from componere, to put together)

composition at the See also:

• AGE (Fr. age, through late Lat. aetaticum, from aetas)

age of fourteen by the See also:

• PRODUCTION (Lat. productionem, from producere, to pro-duce)

production of a See also:

• SYMPHONY

symphony . In 1853 Bruch gained the See also:

• MOZART, WOLFGANG AMADEUS1 (1756–1791)

Mozart Stipendium of 400 gulden per annum for four years at See also:

• FRANKFORT

Frankfort-on-See also:

• MAIN (from the Aryan root which appears in " may " and " might," and Lat. magnus, great)
• MAIN (Lat. Moenus)

Main, and for the following few years studied under See also:

• HILLER, FERDINAND (181i-1885)
• HILLER, JOHANN ADAM (1728–1804)

Hiller, See also:

• REINECKE, CARL HEINRICH CARSTEN (1824—1910)

Reinecke and Breunung . Subsequently he lived from 1858 to 1861 as See also:

• PIANOFORTE (Ital. piano, soft, and forte, loud)

pianoforte teacher at Cologne, in which city his first See also:

• OPERA (Italian for " work ")

opera (in one See also:

• ACT (Lat. actus, actum)

act), Scherz, See also:

• LIST (O.E. lisle, a Teutonic word, cf. Dut. lust, Ger. Leiste, adapted in Ital. lista and Fr. lisle)
• LIST, FRIEDRICH (1789-1846)

List and Rache, was produced in 1858 . On his See also:

• FATHER

father's See also:

• DEATH

death in 1861, Bruch began a tour of study at See also:

• BERLIN
• BERLIN, CONGRESS AND TREATY OF
• BERLIN, ISAIAH (1725–1799)

Berlin, See also:

• LEIPZIG

Leipzig, See also:

• VIENNA (Ger. Wien; Lat. Vindobona)
• VIENNA, CONGRESS OF (1814-1815)

Vienna, See also:

• MUNICH (Ger. Munchen)

Munich, See also:

• DRESDEN

Dresden and See also:

• MANNHEIM

Mannheim, where his opera See also:

• LORELEI (from Old High Ger. Lur, connected with modern Ger. lauern, " to lurk," " be on the watch for," and equivalent to elf, and lai, " a rock ")

Lorelei was brought out in 1863 . At Mannheim he lived till 1864, and there he wrote some of his best-known See also:

• WORKS

works, including the beautiful Frithjof . After a further See also:

• PERIOD
• PERIOD (Gr. irepioSos, a going or way round, circuit, aepi, round, and &Sis, way, road)

period of travel he became musical-director at See also:

• COBLENZ (KOBLENZ)

Coblenz (1865–1867), Hofkapellmeister at See also:

• SONDERSHAUSEN

Sondershausen (1867–1870), and lived in Berlin (1871–1873), where he wrote his See also:

• ODYSSEUS (in Latin Ulixes, incorrectly written Ulysses)

Odysseus, his first See also:

• VIOLIN

violin See also:

• CONCERTO (Lat. concertus, from certare, to strive, also con-fused with concentus)

concerto and two symphonies being composed at Sondershausen . After five years at See also:

• BONN

Bonn (1873–1878), during which he made two visits to See also:

• ENGLAND
• ENGLAND, THE CHURCH OF

England, Bruch, in 1878, became conductor of the Stern Choral See also:

• UNION
• UNION (known locally as Union Hill and officially as Town of Union)

Union; and in 188o of the See also:

• LIVER (O. Eng. lifer; cf. cognate forms, Dutch lever, Ger. Leber, Swed. lefver, &c.; the O. H. Ger. forms are libara, lipora, &c.; the Teut. word has been connected with Gr. i'prap and Lat. jecur)

Liver-See also:

• POOL

pool Philharmonic . In 1892 he was appointed director of the Berlin Hochschule . In 1893 he was given the honorary degree of See also:

• MUS

Mus . Doc. by See also:

• CAMBRIDGE
• CAMBRIDGE, EARLS AND DUKES OF
• CAMBRIDGE, RICHARD OWEN (1717-1802)

Cambridge University . Max Bruch has written in almost every conceivable musical See also:

• FORM (Lat. forma)

form, invariably with straight-forward honest simplicity of See also:

• DESIGN (Fr. desiin, drawing; Lat. designare, to mark out)

design .

He has a See also:

• GIFT (a common Teutonic word, cf. Ger. die Gift, gift, das Gift, poison, formed from the Teut. stem gab-, to give, cf. Dutch geven, Ger. geben; in O. Eng. the word appears with initial y, the guttural of later English is due to Scandinavian influence)

gift of refined See also:

• MELODY (Gr. ,ueXw3ia, a choral song, from name, tune, and gi6i, song)

melody beyond the See also:

• COMMON

common, his melodies being broad and suave and often exceptionally beautiful .