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 | | That Max Bruch is widely known for just one work, his Violin Concerto No.1, is both unfair and misleading. |
 | | Bruch's career was something of a procession along the establishment path, winning competitions, studying with well-respected figures (notably Ferdinand Hiller), composing for the theatre, concert hall and church, and accepting various prestigious positions. |
 | | Like Pfitzner, who in 1916 organized a revival of Bruch's opera Die Loreley, he lived out of academia's palm, producing music that was designed first and foremost to appease the institutions that supported him, and, secondarily, to entertain the public in the least demanding fashion. |
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