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Bach-Jahrbuch
The ''Bach-Jahrbuch'' ("Bach yearbook" or according to the publication's website "Bach Annals") is an Periodical literature, annual publication related to the composer Bach. It is published in German by the Neue Bachgesellschaft in Leipzig. It is the most respected publication for international Bach research. The ''Bach-Jahrbuch'' contains contributions of notable Bach scholars related to recent research of Bach and his family. It also provides a Bach bibliography. Begun in 1904, it is the oldest periodical dedicated to one composer. The first editor was the musicologist Arnold Schering from 1904. The present editor is Peter Wollny. Editors * Arnold Schering (1904–1939) * Max Schneider (music historian), Max Schneider (1940–1952) * Alfred Dürr and Werner Neumann (1953–1974) * Hans-Joachim Schulze and Christoph Wolff (1975–2005) * Peter Wollny (from 2005) External links * Neue Bachgesellschaft {{italic title Annual publications Classical music publications ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alfred Dürr
Alfred Dürr (3 March 1918 – 7 April 2011) was a German musicologist. He was a principal editor of the Neue Bach-Ausgabe, the second edition of the complete works of Johann Sebastian Bach. Professional career Dürr studied musicology and Classical philology at the Georg-August-Universität Göttingen from 1945 to 1950. He wrote his thesis about Bach's early Bach cantata, cantatas. From 1951 until his retirement in 1983 he was an employee of the Johann Sebastian Bach Institute in Göttingen, West Germany, from 1962 to 1981 its deputy director. His work involved collaboration with colleagues in East Germany. He was a principal editor of the Neue Bach-Ausgabe, a project which was divided between the Johann Sebastian Bach Institute and the Bach-Archiv Leipzig in East Germany. From 1953 to 1974 Dürr was editor of the ''Bach-Jahrbuch'' (Bach almanach), together with Werner Neumann, the founder and director of the Bach-Archiv Leipzig. Dürr received honorary doctorates of music fro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Wollny
Peter Wollny (born 29 June 1961) is a German musicologist, a Bach scholar who has served the Bach Archive Leipzig beginning in 1993, and as its director from 2014. Wollny has contributed to the Neue Bach-Ausgabe, and has been an editor of '' Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach: The Complete Works''. He has been professor at the University of Leipzig, and teaching internationally. He received an honorary doctorate from the University of Uppsala. Career Wollny was born in , Issum. He studied musicology, art history and German studies at the University of Cologne from 1981 to 1987 He studied musicology further at Harvard University with Christoph Wolff, Lewis Lockwood and Reinhold Brinkmann, where he achieved a Ph.D. in 1993 with a dissertation about Wilhelm Friedemann Bach. He has worked scientifically at the Bach Archive Leipzig, beginning that year. From 2001, he directed the Referat Forschung I, was the scientific Referent of the library and curator of the collection of manuscripts ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hans-Joachim Schulze
Hans-Joachim Schulze (born 3 December 1934) is a German musicologist, a Bach scholar who served as the director of the Bach Archive in Leipzig from 1992 to 2000. With Christoph Wolff, he was editor of the ''Bach-Jahrbuch'' (Bach yearbook) from 1975 to 2000. He published an introduction to all cantatas by Johann Sebastian Bach in 2006. Career Born in Leipzig, Schulze studied musicology and German studies at the University of Music and Theatre Leipzig from 1952 to 1954, and at the University of Leipzig from 1954 to 1957. He worked at the Bach Archive in Leipzig as its director from 1992 to 2000. He achieved a Ph.D. at the University of Rostock with studies of the history of Bach tradition in the 18th century (Studien zur Bach-Überlieferung im 18. Jahrhundert). He was awarded the Hanns Eisler Prize in 1973 for the ''Dokumente zum Nachwirken Johann Sebastian Bachs 1750–1800'' (Documents of the legacy of Johann Sebastian Bach 1750–1800), which he edited. In 1993, Schulze was a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
