Josef Marx (oboist)

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Josef Marx (born September 9, 1913 in Berlin , † December 21, 1978 in New York City ) was an American oboist and musicologist.

Life

Marx came to Cincinnati with his family in 1927. He graduated from the University of Cincinnati in 1934 in comparative literature. He studied oboe with Marcel Dandois at the Cincinnati Conservatory of Music and later with Léon Goossens in London. Since his student days he had a friendship with the composer Stefan Wolpe .

He has performed as a soloist with numerous chamber ensembles and orchestras in Palestine and the USA (including the New York Philharmonic ) and under the direction of conductors such as Antal Doráti , Otto Klemperer , Fritz Busch , Arturo Toscanini , Ionel Perlea , Thomas Beecham , Dimitri Mitropoulos , Fritz Reiner , George Szell , Malcolm Sargent , Bruno Walter , Igor Stravinsky , Pierre Boulez and Zubin Mehta . He has also worked with chamber music ensembles such as the Adolph Chamber Players , the Bernard Krainis Baroque Ensemble , the Hartt Chamber Players , the Friends of Music in Brattleboro, Vermont (with Marcel Moyse ), the Blue Hill Troupe , the Canterbury Choral Society and, since 1963, with the Group for Contemporary Music at Columbia University . Among other things, dedicated to him Edgard Varese , Stefan Wolpe , Elliott Carter , Raoul Pleskow , Charles Wuorinen , Harvey Sollberger , Gunther Schuller , Howard Rovics , Isaac Nemiroff , Donald Martino , Ursula Mamlok , Charles Whittenberg and Warren A. Cytron works.

At the suggestion of Alfred Einstein , he founded the McGinnis and Marx publishing house in 1946 . He mainly published brass music from the baroque period and the 20th century. Works by contemporary composers such as Stefan Wolpe , Isaac Nemiroff , Donald Martino , Harvey Sollberger , William Sydeman , Mario Davidovsky , Gunther Schuller , Morton Subotnick , Thomas Briccetti and John Harbison have appeared here . In 1950 he founded the Josef Marx Baroque Ensemble , with which he also performed numerous forgotten works from the Baroque era. In addition to the oboe, he also played the oboe d'amore, English horn, baroque oboe and other instruments in the ensemble. Since 1964 he was professor of musicology at the CW Post Campus .

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SURNAME Marx, Josef
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American oboist and musicologist
DATE OF BIRTH September 9, 1913
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH December 21, 1978
Place of death New York City