Eduard Marxsen (23 July 1806 – 18 November 1887)Page for ''Marxsen, Eduard'', at imslp.org
accessed 5 September 2017. was a German pianist, composer and teacher.

Biography

Marxsen was born in Nienstädten. He was a pupil of Ignaz von Seyfried (a pupil of

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who conducted the premiere of the original version of

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''), Simon Sechter, Johann Heinrich Clasing, and Carl Maria von Bocklet (a close friend of

and

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). His most famous student was

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,Alessandra Comini: ''The Changing Image of Beethoven: A Study in Mythmaking'', revised edition (2008), Christopher Fifield: ''The German Symphony Between Beethoven and Brahms: The Fall and Rise of a Genre'' (Farnham, Surrey & Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2015), . who dedicated his Piano Concerto No. 2 in B-flat major, Op. 83 to Marxsen. He wrote about 70 works, including an orchestral work named ''Beethovens Schatten'' (''Beethoven's Shadow''), which was performed a number of times. He died in Altona, aged 81.

Bibliography

* Jane Vial Jaffe: "Brahms as an Editor of Marxsen?", in: ''The American Brahms Society Newsletter'', vol. 28 (2010), no. 1 (Spring 2010), p. 1-5. * Jane Vial Jaffe: "The Symphonic Side of Eduard Marxsen", in: ''The American Brahms Society Newsletter'', vol. 28 (2010), no. 2 (Fall 2010), p. 1-7. * Jane Vial Jaffe: ''Eduard Marxsen and Brahms'' (Proquest database, Umi Dissertation Publishing, 2011).
Page for Marxsen, mentioning a recording by Anthony Spiri of several of Marxsen's works for Piano, at prestoclassical.co.uk

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* 1806 births 1887 deaths 19th-century classical composers 19th-century classical pianists 19th-century German composers German classical pianists German music educators Piano pedagogues Pupils of Ignaz von Seyfried {{pianist-stub