Skip to content
Max Bruch

File:Max_bruch.jpg · Wikimedia Commons · See Wikimedia Commons

EntityQ106434· pop 47· linked from 887 articles

Also known as Max Christian Friedrich Bruch

German romantic composer and conductor (1838-1920)

OverviewAI-generated

Max Christian Friedrich Bruch (1838–1920) was a German composer, conductor, and teacher. Born in Cologne, he studied at the University of Bonn under Carl Reinecke and Ferdinand Hiller. His musical output included works in the opera and symphony genres, and he was an accomplished violinist. Bruch served as a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Music and was employed by the Berlin University of the Arts.

Throughout his career, Bruch taught several students, including Ottorino Respighi, Sara Wennerberg-Reuter, Clara Mathilda Faisst, and Elisabeth Kuyper. He received the Bavarian Maximilian Order for Science and Art and the Pour le Mérite. Bruch died in Friedenau, Berlin, and was buried in the Alter St.-Matthäus-Kirchhof Berlin.

Synthesized by Vinony from 39 facts across 7 sources: Wikidata, Crossref, Open Library, MusicBrainz, Last.fm, Europeana Sparql, Vinony graph. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.

Person · Open Library

Born
1838
Died
1920
Works
57

Top works

  • Achilleus
  • Max Bruch und Philipp Spitta im Briefwechsel
  • Odysseus
  • Fritiof
  • Erläuterungen zu Max Bruch's Das Lied von der Glocke

via Open Library + Wikidata

Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners
283,727
Total plays
1,417,968

Tags

Classicalromanticgermancomposersclassic

Max Bruch (6 January 1838 – 2 October 1920) was a German Romantic composer, violinist, teacher, and conductor who composed over 200 works, including three violin concertos. Born in Cologne to a singer mother and an attorney father, he showed musical talent from a young age and was trained by Ferdinand Hiller and others. He held various musical positions in Germany and served as conductor of the Liverpool Philharmonic Society from 1880 to 1883. Bruch taught composition at the Berlin Hochschule fü

via Last.fm · Max Bruch

Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

  1. SPAdes: A New Genome Assembly Algorithm and Its Applications to Single-Cell Sequencing

    · 2012 · cited 24,588x

  2. A smooth particle mesh Ewald method

    · 1995 · cited 21,510x

  3. Reproducible, interactive, scalable and extensible microbiome data science using QIIME 2

    · 2019 · cited 20,871x

  4. Welcome to the Tidyverse

    · 2019 · cited 20,450x

  5. Initial sequencing and analysis of the human genome

    · 2001 · cited 18,614x

via Crossref · CC0

Key facts

Born
( 1838-01-06 ) 6 January 1838, Cologne , Prussia
Died
2 October 1920 (1920-10-02) (aged 82), Berlin-Friedenau , Germany
Era
Late Romantic
Works
List of compositions
Spouse
Clara Tuczek ​ ​ ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1881 ; died 1919 ) ​

via Wikipedia infobox

Works in European collections

23 objects attributed to Max Bruch, held across European museums, libraries & archives · via Europeana

~13 min read

Encyclopedic overview

Max Bruch (6 January 1838 – 2 October 1920) was a German Romantic composer, violinist, teacher, and conductor who wrote more than 200 works, including three violin concertos, the first of which has become a staple of the violin repertoire.

Early life and education

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Max Bruch” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

Gallery (5)