Max Seiffert

Max Seiffert (9 February 1868 – 15 April 1948)[1] was a German musicologist and music arranger.[2]

Biography

Seiffert was born in Beeskow an der Spree, Germany; and died in Schleswig, Germany. He was first educated at the Joachimsthal Gymnasium at Berlin, and then at the University of Berlin where he received a Ph.D. in 1891 for the dissertaion J.P. Sweelinck und seine direkten deutschen Schüler.[2]

Career

As well as producing modern editions of organ pieces by Bach and Buxtehude, Seiffert was responsible for the following:[2]

In 1938 he received the Goethe Medal for Art and Science.[5]

References

  1. ^ The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians. London: Macmillan Publishers, 1980.
  2. ^ a b c bach-cantatas.com/Lib/Seiffert-Max.htm
  3. ^ bach-cantatas.com/NVD/PT-Seiffert
  4. ^ gfhandel.org – editions
  5. ^ Ernst Klee: Das Kulturlexikon zum Dritten Reich. Wer war was vor und nach 1945. S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2007, S. 566.