Louis, Rudolf and Thuille, Ludwig
(1870–1914)
RUDOLF LOUISLOUIS, RUDOLFRUDOLF LOUIS [* 1870-† 1914] and LUDWIG THUILLETHUILLE, LUDWIGLUDWIG THUILLE [* 1861-† 1907] Rudolf Louis and Ludwig Thuille were two of Munich's most influential musical thinkers at the turn into the current century. Louis, a critic and author of numerous books on composers—including Wagner, Liszt, Berlioz, and Bruckner—possessed the greater proclivity towards abstraction, though Thuille, a composer and professor at the Königliche Musikschule, was by no means…