Marx, Adolf Bernhard
(1795–1866)
ADOLF BERNHARD MARXMARX, ADOLF BERNHARDADOLF BERNHARD MARX [* ca. 1795-† 1866] The Berlin professor Adolf Bernhard Marx undertook a huge project on behalf of his students: the four-volume Lehre von der musikalischen Komposition, praktischtheoretisch (1837-47). He was not contented to circumscribe his efforts within the domains of harmony and counterpoint, as some of his contemporaries were doing, much to his consternation. [His views on the pedagogy of Siegfried DEHN were vented in Alte…