The ''Allgemeine deutsche Musikzeitung'' (subtitled: ''Wochenschrift für die Reform des Musiklebens der Gegenwarts'') was a musical specialist journal, which appeared from 1874 to 1884, first in

Leipzig Leipzig ( , ; Upper Saxon: ) is the most populous city in the German state of Saxony. Leipzig's population of 605,407 inhabitants (1.1 million in the larger urban zone) as of 2021 places the city as Germany's eighth most populous, as wel ...

and

Kassel Kassel (; in Germany, spelled Cassel until 1926) is a city on the Fulda River in northern Hesse, Germany. It is the administrative seat of the Regierungsbezirk Kassel and the district of the same name and had 201,048 inhabitants in December 2020 ...

, then in Charlottenburg. In the early years it was called ''Allgemeine Deutsche Musik-Zeitung – Wochenschrift für das gesammte musikalische Leben der Gegenwart''. From 1878 to 1881, the music critic Wilhelm Tappert, a "defender of the

New German School The New German School (german: link=no, Neudeutsche Schule, ) is a term introduced in 1859 by Franz Brendel, editor of the ''Neue Zeitschrift für Musik'', to describe certain trends in German music. Although the term has frequently been used in ...

" was its editor. From 1881 to 1884, the composer was the owner and editor (he too was "active in a progressive sense"). Among the regular contributors was the music writer

Heinrich Reimann Professor Dr. phil. Heinrich Reimann (March 12, 1850 – May 24, 1906), was a German musicologist, organist, and composer. Reimann was born in Rengersdorf, Silesia, and was a son of Ignaz Reimann, also a musician. Reimann studied at the U ...

, the organist and music writer Albert Heintz (responsible for the theme "Richard Wagner"), the composer

Luise Adolpha Le Beau Luise Adolpha Le Beau (25 April 1850 in Rastatt, Grand Duchy of Baden – 17 July 1927 in Baden-Baden) was a German composer of classical music. She studied with noted musicians Clara Schumann and Franz Lachner, but her primary instr ...

as well as Hans von Bülow, whose ''Skandinavische Concertreiseskizzen'' were published from April to May 1882.Hans-Joachim Hinrichsen: ''Musikalische Interpretation Hans von Bülow''. Franz Steiner, Stuttgart 1999, , (). In 1885, the ''Allgemeine deutsche Musikzeitung'' merged with the ''Allgemeine Musikzeitung'', still with Otto Leßmann in double management.

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