The Music of the Nineteenth Century and its Culture [Paperback]

An influential survey, published in 1855, of the significance of music in western culture, and a guide to musical education.A. B. Marx was a scholar, teacher and critic of music, and a friend 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 civilisation, and a guide to musical education.A. B. Marx was a scholar, teacher and critic of music, and a friend 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 civilisation, and a guide to musical education.A. B. Marx (17951866) 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.Preface; 1. The nature and object of this work; 2. Art; 3. The life of musical art; 4. The present; 5. The future.