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solo) appears holding a flaming cross, and demands that the groom carry the cross to the next chieftain. One chorus urged him to stay while another presses him to leave; eventually he says a reluctant farewell to his new bride. At the end of the third scene the women’s chorus comforts her, and the groom sings a lengthy solo. The following scenes contrast the groom’s journey carrying the flaming cross over the Scottish highlands with a quiet apparition of the Virgin Mary, and the work ends with a battle and triumphal chorus.
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The first of the work’s eight scenes sees a bridal boat crossing a quiet lake at dawn: the bride (soprano solo) and groom (baritone solo) are greeted in two wedding choruses. The wedding takes place in a woodland chapel, accompanied by the orchestra and a bell. Then, a neighboring chieftain (bass
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Bruch was dissatisfied with the translation of the work into English by Caroline Holland, who took it upon herself to "put the work under a Scottish magnifying glass from A to Z and corrected it as one would correct the bad exercises of a music student."
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does not represent any kind of artistic progress: the public too seemed to feel this when it was meagre in its applause, so that the composer, who was conducting, felt the need to darken his brow."
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Das Feuerkreuz: dramatische Cantate nach einem Motiv aus Walter Scott's "Lady of the lake"; für Solostimmen, Chor und Orchester (Orgel ad libitum); Op. 52
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but changed his mind, commenting that Wilhelm’s tastes in music were limited to "the blarings of massed trumpets", and "an unhealthy appetite for (
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at her request when she was visiting Berlin in 1900. In 1892 he also adapted the piece for solo cello and orchestra and published it as Op. 61.
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from this work is often sung on its own and was subsequently published separately (as Op. 52 No. 6). Bruch sent a copy of it to
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was performed in Rotterdam, Leipzig, Magdeburg, Barmen, Bonn and Riga in the summer of 1899.
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Bruch originally intended to dedicate the work to the new Kaiser,
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German
Max Bruch
Breslau
Walter Scott
Lady of the Lake
Heinrich Bulthaupt
Ferdinand Pfohl
Wilhelm II
Wagner
Nellie Melba
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"Bruch, Max Das Feuerkreuz (The Fiery Cross) op. 52"


"Bruch, Max"
Das Feuerkreuz: dramatische Cantate nach einem Motiv aus Walter Scott's "Lady of the lake"; für Solostimmen, Chor und Orchester (Orgel ad libitum); Op. 52


Scotland in Music A European Enthusiasm
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Velhagen & Klasings Monatshefte Volume 4, Issue 2, Part 2





Max Bruch: His Life and Works
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