Adolf Bernhard Marx

Adolf Bernhard Marx ( born May 15, 1795 in Halle (Saale), † May 17 1866 in Berlin) was a German musicologist, music theorist and composer.

Life

Marx, who had studied law, took in his hometown music lessons with Daniel Gottlob Türk and then in Berlin with Carl Friedrich Zelter. In 1827 he earned his doctorate at the University of Marburg Dr. phil. and in 1830 professor of music at the Friedrich -Wilhelms- University of Berlin and 1832 university music director.

He was in 1844 alongside Franz Commer, the Custos of the music department of the Royal. Library, and Otto Lange, music critic of the Vossische newspaper, founding member of the Berlin Association of Musicians, Musicians - the first professional association on German soil.

In 1850, he was next to Julius Stern and Theodor Kullak of the founders of the hugely prestigious Stern Conservatory, where he worked until 1856 as a teacher of composition.

Marx earned primarily as a musicological author, as the author of a Beethoven biography and the book Gluck and the Opera and as editor of the works of Handel and Bach's reputation. In 1824 he founded the Berlin General Musical newspaper, which he edited until 1830. Already in 1829 he supported here the performance of the St. Matthew Passion by Felix Mendelssohn with the Sing- Akademie zu Berlin and argued forcefully for the late work of Beethoven one, which was in his time as a confused and unplayable.

His final resting place after Marx reburial on the West Stahnsdorf.

Family

Marx married in 1838 in Dessau 25 years younger than Marie Therese Cohn (* 1820 in Dessau ), a daughter of the businessman Salomon Cohn from his marriage to Fanny Cohn born Schönig. She was a student of Friedrich Schneider and later joined forth also a writer. Adolf Bernhard Marx and Therese had a son and three daughters.

Musical Works

His own compositions, however, had little success. Mentioned are the oratorio St. John the Baptist and the oratorio Moses, which was first performed on December 2, 1841 in Breslau under the direction of Johann Theodor Mosewius. On November 14, 2009, there came through the Sing-Akademie zu Berlin in the Gethsemane Church in Berlin -Prenzlauer Berg to a reissue. Worth mentioning are furthermore a cantata, the Singspiel Jery and Bätely on a text by Goethe, an organ chorale book as well as songs, choral and piano works.

Writings

  • The art of singing, theoretical and practical, Berlin 1826
  • As to the validity of Handel's solo songs for our time. A supplement to the art of singing, Berlin 1828
  • About painting in music. A Maigruß to the art philosopher, Berlin 1828
  • Johann Sebastian Bach, Large Passion according to the Gospel Matthaei ( BWV 244), complete piano score by Adolph Bernhard Marx, Berlin, Schlesinger, 1830, 190 died p qu - fol.
  • The old music teaching in a dispute with our time, Leipzig 1841 ( digitized )
  • Theory of musical composition, 1837-1847
  • "The music of the nineteenth century and their care: Method of Music", 1855
  • Ludwig van Beethoven. Life and work, 2 volumes in 1 Volume, Berlin, 1859; Reprint Hildesheim 1979
  • Instructions for presentation of Beethoven's piano works, Berlin 1863
  • Memories. From My Life, 2 volumes, Berlin 1865
  • The ideal and the present, Jena 1867
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