Dietrich Kilian

Dietrich Kilian (3 May 1928 – 6 September 1984) was a German musicologist.

Career

Kilian was born in Roßlau. He studied at the Freie Universität Berlin and earned the doctorate in 1956 with a thesis "Das Vokalwerk D. Buxtehudes – Quellenstudien zu seiner Überlieferung und Verwendung" (The vocal works by D. Buxtehude – study of the sources regarding tradition and use). He was from 1958 an editor of the Neue Bach-Ausgabe, the critical edition of the complete works by Johann Sebastian Bach, editing, including critical reports, for the rest of his life, on the cantatas (I/13), the orchestral works (VII/3) and the organ works (IV/5–7). With Alfred Dürr and Klaus Hofmann and others, he authored Kritischer Bericht (Critical Commentary).

He rediscovered and published in 1963 the prelude in C major by Buxtehude (BuxWV 138).

Selected works

Literature

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