Karl Laux (26 August 1896 in
Ludwigshafen
Ludwigshafen, officially Ludwigshafen am Rhein (; meaning " Ludwig's Port upon Rhine"), is a city in the German state of Rhineland-Palatinate, on the river Rhine, opposite Mannheim. With Mannheim, Heidelberg, and the surrounding region, it form ...
– 27 June 1978 in
Dresden) was a German
musicologist,
music critic
''The Oxford Companion to Music'' defines music criticism as "the intellectual activity of formulating judgments on the value and degree of excellence of individual works of music, or whole groups or genres". In this sense, it is a branch of mus ...
and
rector
Rector (Latin for the member of a vessel's crew who steers) may refer to:
Style or title
*Rector (ecclesiastical), a cleric who functions as an administrative leader in some Christian denominations
*Rector (academia), a senior official in an edu ...
.
Compositions
* ''Musik und Musiker der Gegenwart, I. volume: Deutschland'', 1958
* ''Die Musik in Russland und in der Sowjetunion''
* ''Joseph Haas. Portrait eines Künstlers – Bild einer Zeit''.
''Joseph Haas. Portrait eines Künstlers – Bild einer Zeit''
on WorldCat Mainz, 1931.
* ''Nachklang, Rückschau auf sechs Jahrzehnte kulturellen Wirkens'',