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Martin Geck

Martin Geck, 1936-2019, was for many years Professor of Musicology at Dortmund University. In his early career he served as the founding editor of the Richard Wagner Complete Edition; later he devoted himself chiefly to Bach research. He published numerous books on the history of German music in the seventeenth, eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

(Updated: 2020)

Awards

  • 2001 Gleim Literature Prize

More Publications

Beethoven. Der Schöpfer und sein Universum
Siedler, Munich 2017.
 
Matthias Claudius. Biographie eines Unzeitgemäßen.
Siedler, Munich 2014.
 
Johannes Brahms
Rowohlt, Reinbek 2013.
 
Mozart. Eine Biographie
Rowohlt Verlag, Reinbek 2005.
 
Johann Sebastian Bach. Leben und Werk
Rowohlt Verlag, Reinbek 2002.
 
Von Beethoven bis Mahler. Leben und Werk der großen Komponisten des 19. Jahrhunderts.
Rowohlt, Reinbek 2000.
 
Musiktherapie als Problem der Gesellschaft
Klett-Cotta Verlag, Stuttgart 1998.

Featured Books

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[Richard Wagner. A Life in Music]

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Robert Schumann
[Robert Schumann, the Romantic: Musician and Man of his Time]

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