Marx, Adolph Bernard (1795–1866)

German musicologist and composer. He studied law, but gave it up for music, to which he devoted himself in Berlin, where in 1824 he founded the Berliner Allgemeine Musikalische Zeitung. In 1830 he became professor of music and in 1850 founded a music school with Kullak and Stern (later Stern Conservatory). He wrote books on the history of music, teaching, on Gluck, Handel, Beethoven, composition, and tone-painting.

Works Opera Jery und Bätely (Goethe, 1824); melodrama Die Rache wartet.

Oratorio Johannes der Täufer, Moses (1841), Nahid und Omar.

Other instrumental works.