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Max Bruch

1838 - 1920

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Max Bruch (6 January 1838 – 2 October 1920) was a German Romantic composer, violinist, teacher, and conductor who wrote more than 200 works, including three violin concertos, the first of which has become a staple of the violin repertoire. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Max Bruch has received more than 686,207 page views. His biography is available in 46 different languages on Wikipedia. Max Bruch is the 124th most popular composer (down from 115th in 2019), the 428th most popular biography from Germany (down from 370th in 2019) and the 25th most popular German Composer.

Max Bruch is most famous for his Violin Concerto No. 1 in G minor, Op. 26, which is one of the most popular violin concertos in the repertoire.

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    Languages Editions (L)

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    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.87

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Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Max Bruch ranks 124 out of 1,451. Before him are Fanny Mendelssohn, Heitor Villa-Lobos, Muzio Clementi, Krzysztof Penderecki, Josef Strauss, and Emmerich Kálmán. After him are Girolamo Frescobaldi, Mikhail Glinka, Daniel Auber, Benjamin Britten, Carl Nielsen, and Maurice Jarre.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1838, Max Bruch ranks 5. Before him are Georges Bizet, John Wilkes Booth, Ernst Mach, and Ferdinand von Zeppelin. After him are Jan Matejko, Luís I of Portugal, Tobias Asser, Ernest Solvay, Franz Brentano, Émile Loubet, and Léon Gambetta. Among people deceased in 1920, Max Bruch ranks 13. Before him are Anders Zorn, Alexander Kolchak, Alexander of Greece, Princess Margaret of Connaught, Robert Peary, and Bal Gangadhar Tilak. After him are Jeanne Hébuterne, Grand Duchess Maria Alexandrovna of Russia, Inessa Armand, Svetozar Boroević, Dmitri Ivanovsky, and Rosalia Lombardo.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Max Bruch ranks 428 out of 7,253. Before him are Helmuth Weidling (1891), Æthelwulf, King of Wessex (795), Regiomontanus (1436), Richard von Weizsäcker (1920), Ernst Abbe (1840), and Kurt Georg Kiesinger (1904). After him are Hans Fischer (1881), Georg von Küchler (1881), Carol I of Romania (1839), Uwe Seeler (1936), Elsa Einstein (1876), and Martin Waldseemüller (1470).

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Among COMPOSERS In Germany

Among composers born in Germany, Max Bruch ranks 25. Before him are Karlheinz Stockhausen (1928), Paul Hindemith (1895), Heinrich Schütz (1585), Giacomo Meyerbeer (1791), Johann Christoph Friedrich Bach (1732), and Fanny Mendelssohn (1805). After him are Kurt Weill (1900), Max Reger (1873), Louis Spohr (1784), Johann Joachim Quantz (1697), Michael Praetorius (1571), and Johann Ambrosius Bach (1645).

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