Hans Joachim Marx


Hans Joachim Marx is a German music historian. He has been professor for European music history at the University of Hamburg.

Life

Born in Leipzig, Marx first studied music at the Academy of Music in Leipzig. After his escape in 1956 to Freiburg im Breisgau, from 1958 he studied musicology, German literature and philosophy at the universities of Freiburg and Basel. In 1966 he received his doctorate in Basel under Arnold Schmitz with a dissertation on "The Organ Tablature of Clemens Hör", which won him the title of Dr. phil. and Mag. Artium. In the following years he undertook research trips, sponsored by the Swiss National Science Foundation, during which he researched the sources for a complete edition of the works of Arcangelo Corelli. In 1966/67 he was a lecturer at the University of Zurich, and from 1968 to 1972 he was assistant to Günther Massenkeil in Bonn. In the summer of 1972 he habilitated in musicology and from 1973 to 2001 he was university professor for European music history at the University of Hamburg.
His main areas of research are instrumental music of the Renaissance and Baroque music, in particular that of Georg Friedrich Handel on which he has published numerous works. He is co-editor of the work editions of Corelli, Hasse and Handel, editor of the Göttinger Händel-Beiträge, which he founded in 1984, and of the six-volume Händel-Handbook. He is also co-editor of various musicological series and the Hamburger Mendelssohn-Vorträge, Verlag Christians, Hamburg.
Marx is a corresponding member of the Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Göttingen, full emeritus member of the Academy of Sciences and Humanities in Hamburg and Member of the Institute of Advanced Musical Studies of King's College London. From 2004 to 2014 he was chairman of the board of the Göttingen International Handel Festival Foundation. Since 2001 he has been an honorary member of the Göttingen Händel-Gesellschaft.

Publications since 2001

Monographs

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