Adolph Kullak (23 February 1823 – 25 December 1862) was a German pianist and music writer.
Life
Born in
Międzyrzecz
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, 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 theoretical frameworks for understanding the practices and possibilities of music. ''The Oxford Companion to Music'' describes three interrelated uses of the term "music theory": The first is the "Elements of music, ...
. 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.
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Kullack died in Berlin at the age of 39.
Works
Kullak, Adolph: ''The Aestetics of Pianoforte Playing,'' trans.1893, reprint N.Y. 1972,
Secondary literature
Gerig, Reginald: ''Famous Pianists and Their Technique'' (Washington 1976)
Ydefeldt, Stefan: ''Die einfache runde Bewegung am Klavier: Bewegungsphilosophien um 1900 und ihre Auswirkungen auf die heutige'' Klaviermethodik, (Augsburg 2018): Wissner Verlag orig. Schwedisch,
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19th-century German musicologists
German classical pianists
1823 births
1862 deaths
Scholars from the Kingdom of Prussia
Prussian musicians
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