Re: Was Bruch Jewish?

[Sandra M. Mosteller <smost...>]

Apparently Bruch was Protestant, but he wrote (had several commissions for)
pieces that could lead a person to assume he was Jewish--the Kol
Nidre,several pieces based on Hebrew themes, and works based on the Old
Testament.
-----Original Message-----
From: Yoel Epstein <yoel (at) netvision(dot)net(dot)il>
To: World music from a Jewish slant <jewish-music (at) shamash(dot)org>
Date: Saturday, June 09, 2001 5:51 AM
Subject: Was Bruch Jewish?


>I stand corrected - Bruch was NOT Jewish.  I had actually lost a bet about
>this a while back.  Well, you never learn.
>
>Anyway, I offer you all this story to make up for the goof:  A woman went
up
>to the pianist Moritz Moskowski (1854 - 1925) and asked him to sign her
>autograph book.  He looked in the book and saw that the famous conductor
Max
>Von Bulow had signed before him: "Bach, Beethoven, Brahms - all the others
>are cretins."
>
>Moskowski took the book and signed: ":Mendelssohn, Meyerbeer, Moskowski -
>all the others are Christians."
>
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