Weitzmann, Carl Friedrich
(1808–1880)
CARL FRIEDRICH WEITZMANNWEITZMANN, CARL FRIEDRICHCARL FRIEDRICH WEITZMANN [* 1808-† 1880] The »Music of the Future« which Liszt and Wagner were composing during the 1850s (and which Brahms and Joachim were to attack in 1860) was ardently defended by the HAUPTMANN pupil and Berlin Conservatory professor Carl Friedrich Weitzmann. Though enamored of Beethoven's music, he added more progressive elements to his theories and reexamined traditional notions concerning consonance and dissonance and the…