The Viennese composer Joseph Marx was admired by Nikolai Medtner, Wilhelm Furtwängler, and, more recently, Ricardo Chailly. He was extraordinarily prolific as a teacher as well. When the Nazis took over Austria, Marx lost his music criticism job but remained in Vienna. Because of suspicions of anti-Semitism (since largely disproved) and because of the general takeover of modernism in the German-language sphere after the war, his once very popular music was almost forgotten. It's well worth hearing; several conductors have ...
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The Viennese composer Joseph Marx was admired by Nikolai Medtner, Wilhelm Furtwängler, and, more recently, Ricardo Chailly. He was extraordinarily prolific as a teacher as well. When the Nazis took over Austria, Marx lost his music criticism job but remained in Vienna. Because of suspicions of anti-Semitism (since largely disproved) and because of the general takeover of modernism in the German-language sphere after the war, his once very popular music was almost forgotten. It's well worth hearing; several conductors have revived it, but the attempt by the Bochum Symphony Orchestra under its longtime American conductor, Steven Sloane, has been the most thorough. Marx has the reputation of being a musical conservative, but that's not entirely fair. Even in the works here, written just before or in the early days of World War II, he uses Classical and Romantic styles in a novel way, and the label "neoclassical" seems somehow not to fit him. He may have modified his style to appeal to Nazi cultural...
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