The Music of the Nineteenth Century and Its Culture

Erscheinungsjahr 2009
ISBN: 978-1-108-00102-1
Verlag: Cambridge University Press

Buch, Englisch, 340 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 553 g

Reihe: Cambridge Library Collection - Music

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, Beethoven, Berlioz and Wagner is placed in a context in which music is seen as a crucial moral influence on the future development of mankind, and musicians therefore as playing a vital role in that development.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Marx, Adolf Bernhard

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Musikwissenschaft Geschichte der Musik Geschichte der Musik: Klassik (ca. 1750-1830)

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface; 1. The nature and object of this work; 2. Art; 3. The life of musical art; 4. The present; 5. The future.