3rd violin concerto (Bruch)
The Violin Concerto No. 3 in D minor, Op. 58 is a violin concerto by the German composer Max Bruch .
Emergence
Max Bruch's third and last violin concerto was written from the summer of 1890 to February 1891. According to his own description of the genesis of the work, Bruch had brought along from his summer rest “among other things a Concert Allegro in D minor ... I had this in mind ... To dedicate to Joachim ... But when I was with Joachim again immediately before my departure for Russia to discuss this piece with him, we both gained the conviction that it was definitely a concert of its own, and it was the natural extension of it a complete concert. ”The aforementioned Concert Allegro became the opening movement of the new concert. As the composer wrote to Joseph Joachim , he created the concerto "with your important contribution, it was entirely intended for you and was created under the influence of your playing."
Joseph Joachim premiered Bruch's Violin Concerto No. 3 in D minor, Op. 58 on May 31, 1891 in Düsseldorf , in a concert organized by the composer in which the composer only presented his own works.
To the music
Sentence names
- Allegro energico
- adagio
- Final. Allegro molto
description
The musical language of the concert is based on the model of Johannes Brahms . In contrast to Max Bruch's unsuccessful Second Violin Concerto , the Third Violin Concerto follows the traditional scheme again.
The first movement is a lively sonata movement . In the lyrical theme of the subordinate movement and with the virtuoso commitment of the soloist, this work is reminiscent of Bruch's First Violin Concerto . There is a difference when, instead of the more lyrical first movements of both predecessors, a robust concertante form is heard in the third violin concerto .
The main theme and cantilena of the slow second movement are provided with variations and figurations . The cantilena, which in turn is reminiscent of the First Violin Concerto , is a romance that does not go in the conventional relative key of F major, but a major third in the other direction to B major.
The third movement is a rondo and is characterized by double stops. When Bruch's friend Otto Goldschmidt from London reported that the Times had described the final movement of the concert as having a “Hungarian character”, Bruch replied: “Lots of nonsense and miserable stuff! The Times fables that Joachim is a Hungarian - all nonsense! "
effect
According to Bruch, the Düsseldorf premiere of the concert on May 31, 1891 was "not a success, but rather a triumph" Under Bruch's direction, eight performances followed over the course of the next five months in Hamburg, Berlin, Frankfurt, Strasbourg, Wroclaw, Leipzig, Cologne and London.
The Third Violin Concerto helped restore the ailing friendship between Max Bruch and Joseph Joachim. Joseph Joachim had accused his wife Amalie Joachim of infidelity with the publisher Fritz Simrock ; Like Johannes Brahms , Bruch had made no secret of the fact that Joachim could not believe this suspicion. At the world premiere of the Third Violin Concerto , Bruch felt nostalgic about the world premiere of the First Violin Concerto - also with Joachim as the soloist.
Despite the return to the convention, the concerto, like Bruch's Second Violin Concerto, is overshadowed by the success of his first violin concerto , which after initial joy soon became a burden for the composer.
literature
- Christopher Fifield: Max Bruch - Biography of a Composer , Swiss publishing house, 1990 Zurich, ISBN 3-7263-6616-4 , pp. 231-235
- Harenberg concert guide , Harenberg Kommunikation, Dortmund, 1998, ISBN 3-611-00535-5
- Booklet of the double CD Bruch - The Complete Violin Concertos , Philips Classics, 1998
Web links
- 3rd Violin Concerto (Bruch) : Sheet music and audio files in the International Music Score Library Project
Individual evidence
- ↑ Max Bruch to Fritz Simrock , December 12, 1890
- ↑ See Neue Zeitschrift für Musik , Volume 58, No. 27 of July 8, 1891, p. 315f.
- ↑ a b Max Bruch to Fritz Simrock, October 31, 1891
- ^ Max Bruch to Fritz Simrock, June 1, 1891