| The Music of the Nineteenth Century and Its Culture Contributor(s): Marx, Adolf Bernhard (Author) |
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ISBN: 0511693028 ISBN-13: 9780511693021 Publisher: Cambridge University Press OUR PRICE: $72.25 Product Type: Open Ebook - Other Formats Published: August 2010 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History - Music |
| Dewey: 780 |
| Series: Cambridge Library Collection: Music (Audio) |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |