Max Bruch
Max
Bruch was German Romantic composer, who is best known for one
composition, his first Violin Concerto. This is a delightful romantic concerto,
deservedly popular with violin virtuosi and concert audiences alike. He also
wrote Kol Nidrei for cello and orchestra, and Scottish fantasy, for violin and
orchestra.
Bruch worked as a conductor in Germany and Britain, and was a
professor of Composition in Berlin.
The
Italian composer Respighi, was one of
Max Bruch's pupils, and Bruch certainly influenced Respighi to carry on the
romantic-impressionist style, when Respighi's contemporaries in Italy were
rejecting the German romantic style, in favour of neo-classicism and modernism.