Franz Brendel

He was a student at the University of Leipzig, University of Berlin, and University of Freiburg up until the year 1840. In 1846, he began teaching music history at the Leipzig Conservatory, and in 1852, he published a well-regarded general history of European music. Brendel also published a book on Franz Liszt. He was the editor of the Neue Zeitschrift für Musik, taking over in 1845 the position relinquished by Robert Schumann (in 1844) and remaining in post until he died in 1868. Brendel coined the phrase Neudeutsche Schule (New German School) to describe the progressive musical movement in Germany headed by Richard Wagner and Franz Liszt in the middle of the nineteenth century. He died in Leipzig.