A. B. Marx was one of the most important German music theorists of his time. This volume offers a generous selection of the most salient of his writings, the majority presented in English for the first time. It features the oft-cited but little understood material on sonata form, his progressive program for compositional pedagogy and his detailed critical analysis of Beethoven's Eroica Symphony. These writings thus deal with issues that fall directly among the concerns of mainstream theory and analysis in the past two centuries.
A. B. Marx was one of the most important German music theorists of his time. This volume offers a generous selection of the most salient of his writin...
A. B. Marx (1795 1866) was a scholar, teacher and critic of music, for many years Professor of Music at the University of Berlin, and a close friend before a falling-out over the libretto of an oratorio of Mendelssohn. This influential book, published in German in 1855 and translated into English in the same year, consists of two parts: a survey of the significance of music to western culture, and an impassioned and thought-provoking guide to the necessary moral qualities, skills and understanding required to teach and to be taught music. Marx's appreciation of such composers as Mozart,...
A. B. Marx (1795 1866) was a scholar, teacher and critic of music, for many years Professor of Music at the University of Berlin, and a close friend b...
Adolf Bernhard Marx (1795 1866), the music critic and composer, spent much of his career as professor of music in Berlin and was a friend and mentor of Mendelssohn. His publications included an influential textbook on composition and a biography of Beethoven. The preface to this two-volume study, published in 1863, ranks Gluck (1714 87) wtih Handel, Mozart and Beethoven at the pinnacle of musical achievement. Marx describes Gluck's radical innovations in operatic composition in the context of the wider European tradition, and sets them in a chronological account of the composer's life. Volume...
Adolf Bernhard Marx (1795 1866), the music critic and composer, spent much of his career as professor of music in Berlin and was a friend and mentor o...
Adolf Bernhard Marx (1795 1866), the music critic and composer, spent much of his career as professor of music in Berlin and was a friend and mentor of Mendelssohn. His publications included an influential textbook on composition and a biography of Beethoven. The preface to this two-volume study, published in 1863, ranks Gluck (1714 87) wtih Handel, Mozart and Beethoven at the pinnacle of musical achievement. Marx describes Gluck's radical innovations in operatic composition in the context of the wider European tradition, and sets them in a chronological account of the composer's life. Volume...
Adolf Bernhard Marx (1795 1866), the music critic and composer, spent much of his career as professor of music in Berlin and was a friend and mentor o...
