Joseph Marx: Präludium (1916)

Marx was one of the most important and most famous Austrian composers in the first half of the 20th century,whose music is written in postromantic and impressionistic style common at that period of transition to non tonal music. Together with other contemporaries like , or W. Furtwängler (who were his friends) he decided not to follow the path of the dodecaphonists, like Schönberg and Webern, but maintain the musical language of tonality and enlarge it by new harmonic progressions and person