Hans Joachim Marx (musicologist)

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Hans Joachim Marx (born December 16, 1935 in Leipzig ) is a German music historian . He was professor for European music history at the University of Hamburg .

Life

Hans Joachim Marx first studied music at the music academy in Leipzig and after his escape in 1956 in Freiburg im Breisgau , from 1958 on musicology, German and philosophy at the universities in Freiburg and Basel . In 1966 he received his doctorate in Basel with Arnold Schmitz with a thesis on "The organ tablature of Clemens Hör". phil. and Mag. Artium. In the following years he went on research trips , supported by the Swiss National Science Foundation, on which he researched the sources for a complete edition of Arcangelo Corelli's works . 1966/67 he was a lecturer at the University of Zurich , from 1968 to 1972 assistant to Günther Massenkeil in Bonn. In the summer of 1972 he qualified as a professor in musicology and was professor for European music history at the University of Hamburg from 1973 to 2001.

His research interests are the instrumental music of the Renaissance and the music of the Baroque , especially Handel , for which he has published numerous publications. He is co-editor of the editions of Corelli, Hasse and Handel, editor of the Göttingen Handel Contributions , which he founded in 1984, and of the six-volume Handel Handbook (2008–2012). He is also co-editor of various musicological series (including treatises on the history of music , Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht , Göttingen , contributions to the history of church music , Verlag Ferdinand Schöningh , Paderborn ) and the Hamburg Mendelssohn Lectures , Verlag Christians , Hamburg .

Marx is a corresponding member of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen , a full emeritus member of the Academy of Sciences in Hamburg and a member of the Institute of Advanced Musical Studies at King's College in London . From 2004 to 2014 he was Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the International Handel Festival in Göttingen. Since 2001 he has been an honorary member of the Göttingen Handel Society .

literature

  • Festschrift for the 65th birthday: Critica musica. Studies on the 17th and 18th centuries, ed. by Nicole Ristow, Wolfgang Sandberger and Dorothea Schröder , Verlag JB Metzler, Stuttgart / Weimar 2001, here also the list of his scientific publications up to the year 2000.

Fonts since 2001

Monographs

  • Handel and his contemporaries. A biographical encyclopedia , 2 part volumes (= The Handel Handbook Vol. 1), Laaber 2008
  • Handel and the sacred music of the baroque age. A collection of essays , Laaber 2013
  • The compositions attributed to GF Handel, 1700-1800 / The compositions attributed to GF Handel, 1700-1800 (HWV Anh. B) , Hildesheim / Zurich / New York 2016

Essays

  • A newly discovered Gloria by Handel , in: Early music 29 (2001), 342–352 (in German in: Göttinger Handel Contributions 9 (2002), 37–53, in Japanese in: Ongakugaku. Journal of the Musicological Society of Japan 47 (2001), 127-139)
  • Comments on staged performances of baroque oratorios and serenatas , in: Basler Jahrbuch für Historische Musikpraxis 23 (2001), 133–150
  • The compositions ascribed to Handel in the thematic catalogs by Breitkopf (1762-1768) , with Steffen Voss, in: Göttinger Handel Contributions 9 (2002), 149–160
  • The Handel picture Chrysander , in: Handel-Jahrbuch 48 (2002), 35–44
  • Unknown Basel tablature fragments from the early 16th century , in: U. Konrad, J. Heidrich, HJ Marx (eds.), Musikalische Quellen - Quellen der Musik. Festschrift for Martin Staehelin for his 65th birthday , Göttingen 2002, 37–50
  • History of an unusual composition: Georg Friedrich Handel's Masque Acis and Galatea, in: H. Krellmann (Ed.)., The modern composer builds on truth. Baroque operas from Monteverdi to Mozart , Stuttgart / Weimar 2003, 87–95
  • Unknown lantatas by Handel, A. Scarlatti, Fago and Grillo in a Neapolitan manuscript from 1710 , with Steffen Voss, in: BM Antonlini et al. (Ed.), Et facciam dolci canti. Studi in onore di Agostino Ziino in occassione del suo 65 ° compleanno , Lucca 2003, 797-806
  • Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy and England , in: HJ Marx (ed.), Hamburger Mendelssohn Lectures , Hamburg 2003, 81–98
  • A new source for Handel's opera 'Rodrigo' , with Steffen Voss, in: Göttinger Handel Contributions 10 (2004), 67–80
  • Report on the discussion concert: Finderglück. a new cantata by JS Bach? from GF Handel? - My soul should praise God (BWV 223) , in: Göttinger Handel Contributions 10 (2004), 179–204
  • Festival productions of Roman oratorios and serenatas in the Baroque era , in: Analecta musicologica 33 (2004), 335–372
  • The compositions I attributed to Handel (Arias and Songs HWV Anh. B 001-032). With Steffen Voss , in: Göttinger Handel Contributions 11 (2006), 95–124.
  • Handel's apprenticeship at the Gänsemarkt-Oper in Hamburg under Reinhard Keizer (1703-1705) , in: Publications of the International Handel Academy Karlsruhe 8 (2006), 343-359 (in English in: RG King (Hrsg.), Handel Studies. A Memorial for Howard Serwer [= Festschrift Series 22], Hillsdale, NY, 2009, 25–45)
  • On the tradition of the Te Deum compositions by Johann Adolf Hasse , in: R. Wiesend (Hrsg.), Johann Adolf Hasse in his time . Stuttgart 2006, 251-259
  • Johannes Brahms in correspondence with Friedrich Chrysander , in: W. Sandberger et al. (Ed.), Music and Music Research. Johannes Brahms in dialogue with history , Kassel 2007, 221–274
  • As an introduction to the symposium 'Handel in the Viennese Classic' , in: Göttinger Handel Contributions 12 (2008), 51–55
  • Composition II ascribed to Handel (duets and solo cantatas HWV Anh. B 101-134) , with Steffen Voss, in: Göttinger Handel Contributions 12 (2008), 123–162
  • Handel as a letter writer , in: Die Musikforschung 62 (2009), 111–127
  • Approaching Handel , in: Die Tonkunst 3 (2009), 329–338
  • Handel's religiosity in the context of European denominations , in: Handel-Jahrbuch 56 (2010), 79–99
  • The compositions ascribed to Handel III (Oratorio Works and Church Music, HWV Anh. B 201-219) , in: Göttinger Handel Contributions 13 (2010), 165–192
  • Handel's Latin motet 'Silete venti' (HWV 242) - a commission for Paris? , in: A. Beer et al. (Ed.), Festschrift Hellmut Federhofer on his 100th birthday , Tutzing 2011, 267–280
  • Concerti a due cori (HWV 332-335) , in: S. Rampe (Ed.), Handel's Instrumentalmusik (= The Handel Handbook 5), Laaber 2011, 486–496
  • The compositions attributed to Handel IV (orchestral works HWV Anh. B 301-368) , with Steffen Voss, in: Göttinger Handel-Contributions 14 (2012), 167-213
  • 'An enthusiastic circle of artists and art lovers' - Eighty Years of the Göttingen Handel Society , in: Program book of the Göttingen Handel Festival 2013
  • The music at the court of George III. (1761-1820) , in: Göttinger Handel Contributions 15 (2014), 119–143
  • 'A love of music distraction ....' Music in the life of Queen Charlotte (1744-1818) , in: Archive for Musicology 71 (2014), 1–20
  • '... a younger scholar of standing.' Leo Schrade's early years up to emigration to the USA (1938) , in: Die Musikforschung 67 (2014), 251–269
  • In memory of Günther Massenkeil (1926-2014) , in: Die Musikforschung 68 (2015), 122
  • 'The old in the new plant.' Leo Schrades Discourse with Paul Hindemith , in: Archiv für Musikwissenschaft 72 (2015), 146–157
  • On the authenticity of the Handel portrait by Christoph Platzer (around 1710) , in: Göttinger Handel Contributions 17 (2016), 97–109

Editions

  • Handel. Gloria HWV deest. Urtext of the Halle Handel Edition (preprint) , Kassel 2001
  • New Mattheson studies with George Buelow, Cambridge University Press, 2nd ed. 2006
  • An International Handel Bibliography / International Handel Bibliography (1959-2009) , Göttingen 2009
  • Georg Friedrich Handel. Dixit Doiminus (Psalm 109) HWV 232. New edition (= Halle Handel Edition III, 1), Kassel 2012
  • Bibliography of international Handel literature in: Göttinger Handel Contributions 9 (2002) ff.

Lexicon article

Various articles in:

  • The music in the past and present. General encyclopedia of music, founded by Friedrich Blume. Second, revised edition, ed. by Ludwig Finscher , Kassel, person part vol. 6, 2001 [Matteo Fornari], vol. 8, 2002 [Georg Friedrich Händel] and vol. 14, 2005 [Arnold Schmitz]
  • The Handel Lexicon , ed. by Hans Joachim Marx in connection with Manuel Gervink and Steffen Voss (= The Handel Handbook 6), Laaber 2011 [several articles about Handel researchers, patrons, members of the English royal family, Handel places and singers, correspondence, family and relatives, Hallelujah (Alleluja), personality of Handel and traveling]

Individual evidence

  1. ^ University of Hamburg - Institute for Historical Musicology - Univ.-Prof. Dr. Hans Joachim Marx
  2. ^ Organs - Foundation International Handel Festival Göttingen. In: haendel-stiftung.de. Retrieved February 23, 2017.

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personal data
SURNAME Marx, Hans Joachim
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German music historian
DATE OF BIRTH December 16, 1935
PLACE OF BIRTH Leipzig