Books by Adolf Bernhard Marx

Adolf Bernhard Marx (1795-1866), influential music theorist, composer and friend of Mendelssohn, believed music should be part of everyone's education. This English translation, of only the first volume of the fourth edition of his influential work on the principles of music theory and composition, was first published in 1852.

Adolf Bernhard Marx (1795-1866) was a German composer, music critic and university teacher. His influential publications included this two-volume study, published in 1863, of the radical innovations in operatic composition that Gluck had pioneered a century earlier. Marx's account is chronologically organised, and includes biographical details and music examples.

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.