Max Bruch

(Allemagne - Germany)

Max Christian Friedrich Bruch was born in Cologne on 6 January (Twelfth Night) 1838. His father was a lawyer. His mother was a soprano and music teacher. Max began his musical studies as a pianist, his precocious talent recognized very early on by influential musicians in Cologne, including the pianist, conductor, and composer Ignaz Moscheles. In 1852, he was awarded the Mozart Foundation Prize at the age of only fourteen. Thirteen years later in 1865 Bruch held his first important post, in Coblenz as Music Director, a position he maintained for two years. Subsequently, he was employed in Sonderhausen as Court Kapellmeister (1867-1870), in Liverpool as conductor of the Philharmonic Society there (1880-1883), in Breslau as conductor of the Orchesterverein (1883-1890), and finally as Professor in Berlin (1891-1911). In 1883 the eminent composer travelled to the United States for an extensive tour which took him, among other cities, to Cleveland where on 26 April 1883 an enormous concert of his works was presented in the Ontario Street Temple. He died in 1920 at the age of 82.

– Thomas Wood

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