Scottish Fantasy
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The Scottish Fantasy in E♭ minor, Op. 46, is a composition for violin and orchestra by Max Bruch. The composition is a four-movement fantasy on Scottish folk melodies. Bruch dedicated the piece for th
The composer Max Bruch (portrait by Adolf Neumann, 1881)
Bruch premiered the Scottish Fantasy with the Liverpool Philharmonic Society in 1881
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Pablo de Sarasate
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Pablo Martín Melitón de Sarasate y Navascués was a Spanish virtuoso violinist, composer, and conductor of the Romantic period. His best known works include Zigeunerweisen, the Spanish Dances, and the
Scottish Fantasy
…and orchestra by Max Bruch. The composition is a four-movement fantasy on Scottish folk melodies. Bruch dedicated the piece for the virtuoso violinist Pablo de Sarasate. Although Bruch visited Scotland for the first time only a year after the premiere of the work, he had access to a collection of Scottish music at…
Pablo de Sarasate, c. 1890 (Newberry Library, Chicago)
Pablo de Sarasate in 1905
Photo of Sarasate from an Austrian newspaper in 1906
The familiar figure of Sarasate caricatured as a "Man of the Day" for Vanity Fair, 1889