Eduard Marxsen
Eduard Marxsen (23 July 1806 – 18 November 1887) was a German pianist, composer and teacher. • Illustration — Eduard Marxsen.
Eduard Marxsen
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- Born
- 1806 · Nienstedten.
- Died
- 1887 · Altona.
- Nationality
- Hamburg
- Occupation
- composer · music educator · pianist · music director · music teacher · musician
- Fields
- classical music
- Teachers
- Ignaz von Seyfried
- Languages
- German
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Training under Ignaz von Seyfried is recorded. Ferdinand Thieriot, Gustav Jenner and Johannes Brahms are recorded as having studied under Eduard Marxsen. The recorded working language is German. Subjects and genres recorded for the work are classical music. Places of work recorded in the authority are Hamburg.
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Place of activity recorded by the Deutsche Nationalbibliothek: Hamburg.
Marxsen was born in Nienstädten. He was a pupil of Ignaz von Seyfried (a pupil of Mozart who conducted the premiere of the original version of Beethoven's Fidelio), Simon Sechter, Johann Heinrich Clasing, and Carl Maria von Bocklet (a close friend of Beethoven and Schubert). His most famous student was Johannes Brahms, who dedicated his Piano Concerto No. 2 in B-flat major, Op. 83 to Marxsen. He wrote about 70 works, including an orchestral work named Beethovens Schatten (Beethoven's Shadow), which was performed a number of times. He died in Altona, aged 81.
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Eduard Marxsen was a musician, composer, music teacher, pianist and “Musikdirektor”, born on 23 July 1806 in Nienstedten and died on 18 November 1887 in Altona. Both events are recorded by the Deutsche Nationalbibliothek.
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Eduard Marxsen is recorded with the occupation music educator. Classed in the genre classical music. Recorded as composer, music educator, pianist, music director and music teacher.
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1887
Eduard Marxsen died on 18 November 1887.
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Nienstedten.
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- 1.Page for Marxsen, Eduard, at imslp.org, accessed 5 September 2017.
- 2.Alessandra Comini: The Changing Image of Beethoven: A Study in Mythmaking, revised edition (2008),
- 3.Christopher Fifield: The German Symphony Between Beethoven and Brahms: The Fall and Rise of a Genre (Farnham, Surrey & Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2015), .
Bibliography printed in the source article · 4
- Jane Vial Jaffe: "Brahms as an Editor of Marxsen?", in The American Brahms Society Newsletter, vol. 28 (2010), no. 1 (Spring 2010), p. 1–5.
- Jane Vial Jaffe: "The Symphonic Side of Eduard Marxsen", in The American Brahms Society Newsletter, vol. 28 (2010), no. 2 (Fall 2010), p. 1–7.
- Jane Vial Jaffe: Eduard Marxsen and Brahms (Proquest database, Umi Dissertation Publishing, 2011).
- Page for Marxsen, mentioning a recording by Anthony Spiri of several of Marxsen's works for Piano, at prestoclassical.co.uk
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