Schenker Correspondence Project The Correspondence of Heinrich Schenker (1868-1935) Documents Major Collections About ... Main Marx, Joseph Joseph Marx, Hofrath (1882â1964). Austrian composer and teacher, trained at the University of Graz. He was a Professor of Theory and Composition at the Vienna Akademie f¼r Musik und darstellende Kunst (i.e. Vienna Conservatory) 1914â52. Involved in the troubles there in 1918/19, during which the then Director and President were forced out of office, he served as its Director 1922â25; known as the âfather of the Hochschule idea,â he served as the first Rector of the institution with its elevated status as Hochschule f¼r Musik und darstellende Kunst 1925â27. He taught also after 1947 at the University of Graz. Correspondence between Schenker and him exists in OJ 5/25 (1927â33) and OJ 12/51 (1924), OC 16/34 (1931), OC 18/15, 18, 19, 23 (1933). Additionally, OC contains clippings of 35 articles and reviews by him dated between December 1931 and June 1934, with one from June 1926, all from the Neues Wiener Journal , of which periodical he was presumably music critic. | |
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