The influential music theorist and composer Adolf Bernhard Marx (1795 1866) spent much of his career as a professor of music in Berlin and was a friend and mentor of Mendelssohn. He believed music should be part of everyone's general education and lobbied the Prussian government for a comprehensive national scheme for musical education. His compositions included many songs and choral works now largely forgotten, with the exception of the 1841 oratorio Mose. Among his publications is Gluck und die Oper (1863) which is reissued in this series in both the German original and English translation....
The influential music theorist and composer Adolf Bernhard Marx (1795 1866) spent much of his career as a professor of music in Berlin and was a frien...
