Bruch: Violin Concerto No. 1 in G Minor, Op. 26

We are offering this G. Henle piano reduction in order to complete the performance material to this work of which Breitkopf publishes full score and orchestral parts in collaboration with G. Henle. Composer: Max Bruch (1838-1920) Editor: Michael Kube Fingering: Kurt Guntner Piano reduction: Johannes Umbreit Instrumentation (this edition): Piano Reduction, Violin Originally for: Violin, Orchestra Work: Violin Concerto No. 1 in G Minor, Op. 26 Binding: ISMN: 9790201807089 Size: 9.3 x 12.2 inches Pages: 68 Urtext / Critical Edition Description It made its creator world-famous and added a towering masterpiece to the standard repertoire: Max Bruch's First Violin Concerto in G Minor. Bruch himself was not always overjoyed at his work's popularity: "I can't listen to this concerto anymore," he once complained to his publisher Simrock, "do you suppose I've only written one concerto?" By now the Bruch Concerto has found a permanent place in the world's concert halls. Henle's edition provides not only a razor-sharp urtext for the solo part, but a preface that alone is worth the price of the volume: who could have guessed that the concerto went through a convoluted genesis with multi-layered revisions, and that some of the changes go back to the famous violinist Joseph Joachim?