Max Arend

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August Maximilian ("Max") Arend (born July 2, 1873 in Deutz , † March 4, 1943 in Cologne ) was a German lawyer and music writer.

Life

He was the son of the businessman and prime lieutenant Albert Arend and his wife Charlotte nee Köhnen. According to family tradition, his ancestor, the syndic Franz Arend, was raised to the hereditary nobility in 1736 . Max Arend attended the Friedrich-Wilhelm-Gymnasium and the Conservatory of Music in Cologne and Wiesbaden. He was a student of Franz Wüllner and Arnold Mendelssohn .

Then studied Max Arend at the University of Leipzig law and graduated as Dr. jur. He then worked as a lawyer at the Cologne Higher Regional Court from 1918 and published on topics from the history of music, in particular on Christoph Willibald Gluck and his environment.

In 1909 he founded the Gluck Society in Leipzig and in 1913 the Gluck Community in Dresden .

family

Max Arend was married to Käthe Andrasch. She was a daughter of the history painter Hermann Andrasch . Three sons emerged from their marriage.

Publications (selection)

  • Why and how should we celebrate happiness? (= Pamphlet on culture of expression, 121), Munich, 1913.
  • To Gluck's art. Collected essays (Deutsche Musikbücherei, 21), Regensburg, 1914.
  • Beethoven's piano - an aesthetic arranger question [Criticism of the expansion of the range of Beethoven's piano works in modern arrangements, for example his doubling of the octave of the F sharp before the introduction of the B minor theme in the Sonata Op. 10 No. 3]. In: Der Merker , 1916, Issue 8, pp. 291–294.
  • Luck. A biography , 1st and 2nd ed., Berlin, 1921.
  • The overtures to Gluck's Cythère assiégée . In: Zeitschrift für Musikwissenschaft , 4 (1921/22), p. 94.
  • Introduction to: The Magic Tree. Complete opera book. Comic opera in one act by La Fontaine , Wiesbaden, 1926.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Tonkünstler- und Verleger-Almanach der Musikliterarian Blätter , 1905, p. 287.
personal data
SURNAME Arend, Max
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Arend, August Maximilian (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer and music writer
DATE OF BIRTH July 2, 1873
PLACE OF BIRTH Deutz (Cologne)
DATE OF DEATH March 4, 1943
Place of death Cologne