Eduard Marxsen
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Eduard Marxsen (23 July 1806 – 18 November 1887)[1] was a German pianist, composer and teacher.
Biography[]
Marxsen was born in Nienstädten. He was a pupil of Ignaz von Seyfried (a pupil of Mozart who conducted the premiere of the original version of Beethoven's Fidelio), Simon Sechter, , and Carl Maria von Bocklet (a close friend of Schubert).
His most famous student was Johannes Brahms,[2][3] who dedicated his Piano Concerto No. 2 in B-flat major, Op. 83 to Marxsen. See: List of music students by teacher: K to M#Eduard Marxsen.
He wrote about 70 works, including an orchestral work named Beethovens Schatten (Beethoven's Shadow), which was performed a number of times.[2][3]
He died in Altona, aged 81.
Bibliography[]
- Jane Vial Jaffe: "Brahms as an Editor of Marxsen?", in: The American Brahms Society Newsletter, vol. 28 (2010), no. 1 (Spring 2010), p. 1-5.
- Jane Vial Jaffe: "The Symphonic Side of Eduard Marxsen", in: The American Brahms Society Newsletter, vol. 28 (2010), no. 2 (Fall 2010), p. 1-7.
- Jane Vial Jaffe: Eduard Marxsen and Brahms (Proquest database, Umi Dissertation Publishing, 2011).
- Page for Marxsen, mentioning a recording by Anthony Spiri of several of Marxsen's works for Piano, at prestoclassical.co.uk
References[]
- ^ Page for Marxsen, Eduard, at imslp.org, accessed 5 September 2017.
- ^ Jump up to: a b Alessandra Comini: The Changing Image of Beethoven: A Study in Mythmaking, revised edition (2008), ISBN 978-0865346611
- ^ Jump up to: a b Christopher Fifield: The German Symphony Between Beethoven and Brahms: The Fall and Rise of a Genre (Farnham, Surrey & Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2015), ISBN 978-1409452881.
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