Hauptmann, Moritz
(1792–1868)
MORITZ HAUPTMANNHAUPTMANN, MORITZMORITZ HAUPTMANN [* 1792-† 1868] The quest for a foundation upon which to build a music theory had led through the domains of mathematics and acoustics when, in the middle of the nineteenth century, the German composer and teacher Moritz Hauptmann developed a powerful and influential, though abstract, perspective based upon philosophical reasoning. The Hegelian dialectic served as the impetus for his view, which perhaps was formulated more directly from…