The Music of the Nineteenth Century and its Culture

di Adolf bernhard Marx (Autore)

Cambridge University Press, 2009

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.

• Autore: Adolf bernhard Marx
• Editore: Cambridge University Press
• Collana: Cambridge Library Collection - Music
• Anno: 2009
• Rilegatura: Paperback / softback
• Pagine: 340 p.
• Dimensioni: 229 x 152 mm
• Peso: 500 gr.
• EAN: 9781108001021

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