A musicologist based in Frankfurt has discovered the manuscript
of a previously unknown string quartet by composer Max Bruch.
Written when the composer was just 14 years old, the work will have
its modern premiere in 2014.
Researcher Ulrike Kienzle discovered the manuscript while
investigating the archives of the Frankfurt-based Mozart
Foundation, in preparation for a book to celebrate its 175th
anniversary. The composer apparently submitted the quartet to the
foundation in the hope of receiving financial aid. Kienzle also
unearthed a message in the foundation’s guestbook for 17 August
1852, which reads: ‘Max Bruch, z.Z. Stipendiat der
Mozart-Stiftung.'
The foundation plans to host the quartet’s modern premiere next
year, at a concert marking the opening of a new chamber music hall
in the Holzhausenschlösschen, a manor house and cultural venue on
the northern outskirts of Frankfurt.
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