Karl Lauks ( him. Karl Laux ; August 26, 1896 , Ludwigshafen am Rhein - June 27, 1978 , Dresden ) - German musicologist.
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He studied musicology at the University of Heidelberg under Theodore Creuer and Hans Joachim Moser . From 1926 he worked as a music critic in Mannheim , from 1934 in Dresden. At the end of the Second World War in 1945 - 1948 . Advisor to the Ministry of Public Education of Saxony. Since 1948, he edited the music department in the East Berlin newspaper Tägliche Rundschau. In 1951-1952 editor-in-chief of the East German music magazine Musik und Gesellschaft . In 1952 - 1963 Director of the Dresden High School of Music .
He published the monograph “Music in Russia and the Soviet Union” ( Die Musik in Russland and Der Sowjetunion ; 1958 ), a biography of Carl Maria von Weber ( 1978 ), was a leading expert on the creative heritage of Joseph Haas (and published a book in 1954 about him). A well-known book by Lauks about Anton Brukner , in the second edition of which ( 1947 ) the traces of the national-socialist approach to music, noticeable in the first ( 1940 ), were carefully cleaned. Also released a detailed autobiographical book "Resound" ( it. Nachklang ; 1977 ).
In 1965 he was awarded the Robert Schumann Prize . Freeman of the City of Zwickau ( 1972 ). The name of Lauks is a street in Dresden ( German: Karl-Laux-Straße ).
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- ↑ 1 2 BNF ID : 2011 open data platform .
- ↑ 1 2 Discogs - 2000.
- ↑ 1 2 filmportal.de - 2005.
- ↑ 1 2 German National Library , Berlin State Library , Bavarian State Library , etc. Record # 118570269 // General Regulatory Control (GND) - 2012—2016.