Max Bruch

Max Bruch was a German composer who is remembered today primarily for his concertante works, but he was well known in the 19th century for his choral works. Viewed as a promising talent in his youth with an impressive technical and artistic mastery, he was considered a leading composer working in the traditional Romantic idiom until Brahms wrote his First Symphony. Because of his steadfast opposition to the New German School of Wagner and Liszt, and later to the music of "modernists" Strauss, Wolf, and Reger, Bruch gained the reputation of a conservative, and this label still ...