Eduard Marxsen

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Eduard Marxsen (around 1840)

Eduard Marxsen (born July 23, 1806 in Nienstedten ; † November 18, 1887 ) was a German composer , pianist and music director.

Life

Eduard Marxsen was born as the son of the organist Detlef Johann Marxsen and Sophia Eleonora Johanna Michels (en) in Nienstedten-Altona. He received his first regular music lessons at the age of 19 from the Hamburg composer and music teacher Johann Heinrich Clasing . From 1830 he studied in Vienna with Ignaz von Seyfried , Simon Sechter and Carl Maria von Bocklet . From 1837 to 1852 he worked as a music teacher in Hamburg and from 1830 to 1854 with Georg Marxsen, head of an educational institute there. On November 18, 1834, he gave his first concert in Hamburg after returning from Vienna. In 1842 Marxsen was a member of the committee of the North German Music Association for those in need of the Hamburg fire of 1842. From 1855 to 1887 he was a music teacher in Altona and teacher of Cossel, Ferdinand Thieriot and Johannes Brahms . The latter later dedicated the 2nd Piano Concerto in B flat major op.83 to his teacher . Marxsen set up and ran a song board in Altona and was an honorary member of the Hamburg Tonkünstler Association. He was unmarried.

As a composer, Marxsen created symphonies, overtures, male choirs, an operetta ( Das Forsthaus ), chamber music works, piano works and a large number of piano songs.

Works

Orchestral works

Eduard Marxsen's orchestral works have all remained unpublished. Manuscripts of the works are in the archive of the Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde , Vienna, in the State and University Library Hamburg and in the Russian National Library , St. Petersburg.

  • Overture in B flat major (premiere 1834, Hamburg)
  • Aux mânes de Beethoven . Characteristic clay painting (premiered in 1835, Hamburg)
  • Great Symphony in C minor (premier of the entire work 1837, Hamburg)
  • Great Symphony (in A major) (based on Beethoven's op.47) (Premiere 1835, Hamburg)
  • Overture to Romeo and Juliet (Premiere 1837, Hamburg)
  • Great Symphony in A minor (based on a sonata by F. Schubert [D 845])
  • Great Symphony in A major
  • Great Symphony in G minor (Premiere 1845, Hamburg)
  • Ouverture de Phèdre (WP 1845, Hamburg)
  • Overture to Lear
  • Sound painting for large orchestra in F minor
  • Overture to tragedy Othello by Shakespeare
  • The grieving rabbi

Piano works

  • 100 variations on a folk song: [Danzetta popolare di Lapponia]; for pianoforte; Attempt to combine the different rhythms [sic!] And time signatures, including the less common or rare ones, in a coherent piece of music / Dedicated to my dear Johannes Brahms.
  • Etudes op. 4/1

literature

  • Alexander Rausch : Marxsen, Eduard. In: Oesterreichisches Musiklexikon . Online edition, Vienna 2002 ff., ISBN 3-7001-3077-5 ; Print edition: Volume 3, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 2004, ISBN 3-7001-3045-7 .
  • Hermann Frey: Schleswig-Holstein musicians. Hamburg 1921.
  • Friederike Christiane Koch: The graves of the Marxsen family of musicians in Hamburg-Nienstedten. In: The home . Vol. 78, pp. 284-286.
  • Carl Krebs:  Marxsen, Eduard . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 52, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1906, p. 224 f.
  • Altonaische Zeitschrift, VI. Tape. Neumünster 1937, p. 20.
  • Kurt Piper: organists and court musicians ..., In: ZNF , 40th year Hamburg, issue 5/1965, p. 130 ff.
  • Harald Richert. Hamburger Tonkünstlerlexikon, Hamburg, 1983
  • Jane Vial Jaffe: Brahms as an Editor of Marxsen? In: The American Brahms Society Newsletter, Vol. XXVIII (2010), No. 1 (Spring 2010), pp. 1-5.
  • Jane Vial Jaffe: Eduard Marxsen and Brahms . Proquest, Umi Dissertation Publishing 2011.
  • Jane Vial Jaffe: The Symphonic Side of Eduard Marxsen . In: The American Brahms Society Newsletter, Vol. XXVIII (2010), No. 2 (Fall 2010), pp. 1-7.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Art. Eduard Marxsen , in: Herrmann Fey, Schleswig-Holstein Musicians. Ein Heimatbuch , Hamburg (Carl Holler) 1921, pp. 67–69.
  2. ↑ Jane Vial Jaffe: The Symphonic Side of Eduard Marxsen , in: The American Brahms Society Newsletter, Vol. XXVIII (2010), No. 2 (Fall 2010), pp. 1-7.
personal data
SURNAME Marxsen, Eduard
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Marxen, Eduard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German composer, pianist and music director
DATE OF BIRTH July 23, 1806
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg-Nienstedten
DATE OF DEATH November 18, 1887