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Max Bruch

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Photograph of Max Bruch

Max Christian Friedrich Bruch (January 6, 1838 – October 20, 1920) was a German composer and conductor. He wrote over 200 works, but he is best-known for one piece in particular, his Violin Concerto No. 1 in G minor, Op. 26. This work was and still is one of the most popular Romantic-era violin concertos and uses several new ideas from Felix Mendelssohn's concerto. These include the linking of movements and doing away with the orchestral exposition and more rigid form that characterises earlier concertos.

Other pieces, such as his relatively less popular Scottish Fantasy, also for violin and orchestra, are also still played. He also wrote a piece for cello and orchestra which remains quite popular, Kol Nidrei (based on Hebrew melodies, most notably the melody of the Kol Nidre, which gives the piece its name).

Violinists Joseph Joachim and Willy Hess advised Bruch on composing for strings, and Hess performed the premières of a number of works by Bruch. The Concert Piece for violin and orchestra, op. 84, was composed for Hess.

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