Karl Laux
Appearance
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Karl Laux (middle) 1954 after a concert in conversation with David Oistrach (right) and Generalmusikdirektor Franz Konwitschny.
Karl Laux's grave at the Trinitatisfriedhof in Dresden.
Karl Laux (26 August 1896 in Ludwigshafen – 27 June 1978 in Dresden) was a German musicologist, music critic and rector.
Compositions
[edit]- Musik und Musiker der Gegenwart, I. volume: Deutschland, 1958
- Die Musik in Russland und in der Sowjetunion[1]
- Joseph Haas. Portrait eines Künstlers – Bild einer Zeit.[2] Mainz, 1931.
- Nachklang, Rückschau auf sechs Jahrzehnte kulturellen Wirkens, Verlag der Nation Berlin, 1977.
- Numerous other publications of books and larger articles by the author are listed in the appendix of the book Nachklang.
- Die Sächsische Landesbibliothek – Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Dresden, SLUB has a special catalogue for Nachlass put online by Prof. Dr. Karl Laux.
Further reading
[edit]- Marion Demuth: Karl Laux: Autor, Kulturpolitiker, Rektor, in Dresden und die avancierte Musik im 20. Jahrhundert. Part II: 1933–1966, edited by Matthias Herrmann and Hanns-Werner Heister, Laaber 2002, p. 325–336 (Musik in Dresden 5), ISBN 3-89007-510-X
- Siegfried Köhler (1982), "Laux, Karl", Neue Deutsche Biographie (in German), vol. 13, Berlin: Duncker & Humblot, pp. 742–743; (full text online)
- Laux, Karl on Torsten Musical
References
[edit]- ^ Die Musik in Russland und in der Sowjetunion on WorldCat
- ^ Joseph Haas. Portrait eines Künstlers – Bild einer Zeit on WorldCat
External links
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- Literature by and about Karl Laux in the German National Library catalogue
Categories:
- 1896 births
- 1978 deaths
- People from Ludwigshafen
- People from the Kingdom of Bavaria
- Socialist Unity Party of Germany members
- Cultural Association of the GDR members
- Members of the 3rd Volkskammer
- German music critics
- German music journalists
- 20th-century German writers
- Musik und Gesellschaft editors
- Recipients of the Patriotic Order of Merit (honor clasp)
- 20th-century German musicologists