Socialism: Utopian and Scientific of thousands of copies. Throughout the decade of the 1860s, Karl Marx, close personal friend and political associate of Friedrich Engels, dedicated himself to the study of economics, culminating in the publication of the first volume of "Das Kapital" in 1867. Marx's lengthy and ponderous volume was extremely difficult for the average to penetrate, however, leading Engels to suggest to Marx in a letter of September 16, 1868 that a short popularized version of "Das Kapital" for a working class audience was urgently needed. "If it is not written, some Moses or other will come along and do it and
Karl Marx (composer) Karl Marx (composer) Karl Marx (* 12. November 1897 in Munich; † 8. May 1985 in Stuttgart) was a German composer and music teacher. Karl Marx was the son of Josef Marx and his wife Emilie, née Eheberg. After early violin and piano lessons, Karl Marx first studied natural sciences at the Ludwig Maximilian University in Munich in 1916. His encounter with Carl Orff, during whom he took private composition lessons after the World War I, was decisive for his decision to turn professionally to music. 1920-22 Marx studied composition with Anton Beer-Walbrunn and conducting with Eberhard Schwickerath and Siegmund