Adolph Kullak (23 February 1823 – 25 December 1862) was a German pianist and music writer.

Life

Born in

Międzyrzecz Międzyrzecz (; la, Meserici, german: link=no, Meseritz) is a town in western Poland, on the Obra and Paklica river, with 17,667 inhabitants (2020). The capital of Gmina Międzyrzecz and Międzyrzecz County. Since the Local Government Reorganiz ...

, Kullak, the brother of the founder of the ''New Academy of Music'', Theodor Kullak, is still significant today through his writings on

music theory Music theory is the study of the practices and possibilities of music. ''The Oxford Companion to Music'' describes three interrelated uses of the term "music theory". The first is the "rudiments", that are needed to understand music notation (ke ...

. His main works are ''Das Musikalisch-Schöne, ein Beitrag zur Ästhetik der Tonkunst'' and ''Die Ästhetik des Klavierspiels''. (1860). He also worked as a piano teacher and as an author for the

Neue Berliner Musikzeitung ''Neue Berliner Musikzeitung'' was a musical periodical that appeared in the years 1847–1896 and was published by Bote & Bock. It was a continuation of the Berlin musical newspaper published between 1844 and 1847 by Karl Gaillard. History The ...

.Kullak, Adolf
on Encyclopedia. com Kullack died in Berlin at the age of 39.

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* * 19th-century German musicologists German classical pianists 1823 births 1862 deaths {{Germany-musicologist-stub