Description
It made its creator world-famous and added a towering masterpiece to the standard repertoire: Max Bruch’s First Violin Concerto in g minor. Now it’s appearing at last in an urtext edition from Henle. Bruch himself was not always overjoyed at his work’s popularity: “I can’t listen to this concerto anymore,” he once complained to his publisher Simrock, “do you suppose I’ve only written one concerto?” By now the Bruch Concerto has found a permanent place in the world’s concert halls. Henle’s edition provides not only a razor-sharp urtext for the solo part, but a preface that alone is worth the price of the volume: who could have guessed that the concerto went through a convoluted genesis with multi-layered revisions, and that some of the changes go back to the famous violinist Joseph Joachim?
- Michael Kube(Editor)
- Johannes Umbreit(Piano reduction)
- Kurt Guntner(Fingering and bowing for Violin)
Max Bruch was a German composer of the Romantic period. Stylistically, his works outline a counter-aesthetic to the New German School. His violin concerti are particularly significant, but he also wrote numerous choral works, cantatas, oratorios, songs, stage works and orchestral pieces.
Syllabus Information:
- AMEB Violin Licentiate List C
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