Eduard Marxsen

Eduard Marxsen ( born July 23, 1806 Nienstedten, † November 18, 1887 ) was a German composer.

Life

Eduard Marxsen was born the son of an organist in Nienstedten. He received his first regular music lessons at the age of 19 years at the Hamburg composer and music teacher Johann Heinrich Clasing. From 1830 he studied in Vienna with Ignaz von Seyfried, Simon Sechter and Carl Maria von Booklet. Later he returned to his homeland and settled in Hamburg as a piano teacher down. His most famous pupil was the young Johannes Brahms, who has the Piano Concerto No. 2 in B flat major, Op 83 dedicated to his teacher many years later.

As a composer created Marxsen symphonies, overtures, male choirs, an operetta ( The forester's house ), chamber music, piano works and a large number of piano songs.

Works

Orchestral works

The orchestral works of Edward Marxsen are all remained unpublished. Manuscripts of the works can be found in the archives of the Society of Friends of Music, Vienna, in the State and University Library Hamburg as well as in the Russian National Library, St. Petersburg.

  • Aux manes de Beethoven. Characteristic Tongemälde (UA 1835, Hamburg)
  • Great Symphony in C minor (UA of the whole work in 1837, Hamburg)
  • Large Symphony ( in A Major ) (after Op 47 by Beethoven ) (UA 1835, Hamburg)
  • Large Symphony in A minor (after a sonata by F. Schubert [ D845 ] )
  • Large Symphony in A Major
  • Large Symphony in G minor (UA 1845, Hamburg)
  • Ouverture de Phèdre (UA 1845, Hamburg)
  • Symphonic Poem for Large Orchestra in F Minor
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