Talk:Max Bruch

message: Are we sure about this new death date? I did a quick google search and came up with both values. -- Rmrfstar 22:43, 2 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Death date 

message: Did Bruch write another violin concerto? Both the recordings I have of this one (his Violin Concerto (Bruch)) say only "Violin Concerto", etc. etc. —  $PЯINGrαgђ  23:04, 4 February 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Bruch did wrote 3 violin concertos, but except his first concerto, the others are very rarely be performed nowadays. I can say that these pieces are being forgotten by us.(Addaick 12:21, 16 July 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: However, none other than Jascha Heifetz made the world premiere recording of the 2nd, in 1954, with the RCA Victor Symphony Orchestra under Izler Solomon.  This recording is available, and deserves a hearing.  --   JackofOz 02:22, 31 August 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I read somewhere that Bruch was irritated at people forgetting he'd written two other violin concertos and how they never were performed, although he thought them just as good as the first. Mtsmallwood (talk) 06:38, 22 December 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Composers can be forgiven for having a biased opinion of their lesser-known works that they slaved over and poured their hearts into, even if the rest of the world doesn't think much of them. But that doesn't excuse anyone, particularly record companies, concert organisations etc, referring to the first of his 3 violin concertos as "the Bruch Violin Concerto".  --  JackofOz (talk) 11:13, 24 July 2009 (UTC)

text: In a 1887 letter to his publisher, he wrote: Every fortnight another [violinist] comes to me wanting to play the First Concerto; I have now become rude, and tell them: 'I cannot listen to this concerto any more – did I perhaps write just this one? Go away, and play the other concertos, which are just as good, if not better.'   This sentiment was compounded by the fact that he had sold the rights to the first concerto so was not paid for any of its many performances thereafter. Jmsofia (talk) 22:41, 25 August 2016 (UTC)

text: While perhaps rarely performed on the international concert circuit, Bruch's other concertos are well represented on the recording format, and are appreciated via that route.  His "Serenade, Op.75" in a-minor is virtually another concerto, and is an engaging work. 98.67.188.192 (talk) 10:57, 18 January 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[Violin Concerto No. 1 (Bruch)|His violin concerto]] 

message: It says there is no evidence that Bruch was of Jewish ancestry, but was it common practice for non-Jewish composers to make settings of Jewish sacred music...? evin290 (talk) 01:03, 14 January 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Maybe not common, but Bruch isn't the only one by far either. Ravel, for instance, made a setting of the Kaddish (and another Hebrew song), and Dave Brubeck wrote a cantata called The Gates of Justice, off the top of my head. ♫ Melodia Chaconne ♫ (talk) 01:11, 14 January 2010 (UTC)

text: Shostakovich often used Jewish folk-tunes in his pieces. Mahler used some Chinese melodies in the 'Song of the Earth,' but he was hardly Chinese.98.67.188.192 (talk) 10:53, 18 January 2011 (UTC)

text: your question derives from the very common misconception that we creative types take our raw material from our own cultural environment. this is not true. it may be the case for some - perhaps they are so entirely enamoured of their roots that it satisfies them to work with only those threads.  but others - and i am one - want to get our hands into other cultures, other ways of thinking, of being, of feeling.65.93.35.157 (talk) 23:38, 19 December 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Judaism 

message: I have read elsewhere (on the page for his first violin concerto) that he fell destitute during WWI.  Does anyone have any information about this for the article? EdwardRussell (talk) 14:27, 11 February 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Destitution 

message: The link to the "Bruch website" appears to be broken.
Msboz (talk) 23:32, 27 June 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Bruch website 

message: ... but the article doesn't say anything about his choral works. 151.213.48.90 (talk) 22:04, 13 August 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  In his time he was known primarily as a choral composer... 

message: On page 182 of his 2005 book Max Bruch: His Life and Works, Christopher Fifield says this: "Max had returned to Berlin for Christmas in December 1880 and married Clara on 3 January 1881. The newly weds returned to Liverpool and took lodgings at 18 Brompton Avenue Sefton Park..." Martinevans123 (talk) 23:24, 3 January 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Marriage 

message: The name "Max Bruch" instead of "Wilhelm Bruch" got into the list of principal conductors of the [Royal] Scottish [National] Orchestra (1898).  I have changed it to "Wilhelm" (refs RSNO web site; article announcing appointment on p6 of Glasgow Herald 21/07/1898; list of principal conductors in the RSNO Wikipedia page.
I guess the RSNO Conductors template is no longer appropriate to this page, but I'm hesitant to do such a big deletion.  Perhaps the author of the article would review it?
Wyresider (talk) 22:14, 24 January 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  The Bruch at the SO in 1898 was Wilhelm 

message: I'm as much of a Bruch fan as the next person, but I noticed a little bit of fanboy-type wordings, especially in the "Works" section. Just look at how it starts: "His complex and unfailingly well-structured works..." The rest of that section follows a similar overly-effulgent tone favoring Bruch. I'd rather not be the one to fix everything - I'll leave that to the rest of you. But I strongly feel that it should be done.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 97.126.8.198 (talk) 00:49, 7 June 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  NPOV issues? 

message: In this section, it says that after his marriage the couple returned to Liverpool. But I don’t think that there’s anthing anywhere in the article to say that he had ever been there before. How, then, can they be returning? Boscaswell talk 07:36, 19 March 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Personal life narrative error 

message: This article gives his wife's name as "Clara Tuczek". The German Wikipedia says the same thing.
Wikidata shows her full name as "Altistin Clara Philippine Tuczek", giving the German Wikipedia as the source. The German Wikipedia points to the Fifield book as the source for the information about his marriage, and I don't have access to that book. Does the book indeed say that this is her full name? If not that book, then is there any other source that says it?
Googling for this four-word name brings up only Wikidata, so I have certain suspicions. Amir E. Aharoni (talk) 18:16, 5 October 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Wife's full name