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

musicologist Musicology (from Greek μουσική ''mousikē'' 'music' and -λογια ''-logia'', 'domain of study') is the scholarly analysis and research-based study of music. Musicology departments traditionally belong to the humanities, although some m ...

Career

Kilian was born in Roßlau. He studied at the

Freie Universität Berlin The Free University of Berlin (, often abbreviated as FU Berlin or simply FU) is a public research university in Berlin, Germany. It is consistently ranked among Germany's best universities, with particular strengths in political science and t ...

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 New Bach Edition (NBE) (german: Neue Bach-Ausgabe; NBA), is the second complete edition of the music of Johann Sebastian Bach, published by Bärenreiter. The name is short for Johann Sebastian Bach (1685–1750): New Edition of the Complete W ...

, the critical edition of the complete works by

Johann Sebastian Bach Johann Sebastian Bach (28 July 1750) was a German composer and musician of the late Baroque period. He is known for his orchestral music such as the '' Brandenburg Concertos''; instrumental compositions such as the Cello Suites; keyboard wo ...

, 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 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 Clas ...

and

Klaus Hofmann Klaus Hofmann (born 20 March 1939) is a German musicologist who is an expert on the music of Johann Sebastian Bach. Born in Würzburg, Hofmann studied after graduation (1958) from 1958 to 1959 at the University of Erlangen. He then continued his ...

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

*''Neue Ausgabe sämtlicher Werke: Serie 1, Kantaten. Bd. 13. Kantaten zum 1. Pfingsttag. Kritischer Bericht'', Deutscher Verlag für Musik, 1960 *''Neue Ausgabe sämtlicher Werke. Serie I, Kantaten: Kantaten zum 20. und 21. Sonntag nach Trinitatis : kritischer Bericht'', Band 25, Verlag Bärenreiter, 1997 *''Präludien, Toccaten, Fantasien und Fugen für Orgel: kritischer Bericht, Teil 1'', Verlag Bärenreiter, 1978 *''Das Vokalwerk Dietrich Buxtehudes: Quellenstudien zu seiner Überlieferung und Verwendung'', Verlag Berlin., 1956 *''Neun Kantaten für vier Singstimmen und Instrumente'', Band 8 von Dietrich Buxtehudes Werke, illustrierte Neuauflage, Verlag Broude International Editions, 1978

Literature

* Reinmar Emans: ''Die Neue Bach-Ausgabe''. In: Jochaim Lüdtke (ed.), ''Bach und die Nachwelt'', vol. 4 (1950-2000), Laaber-Verlag, 2005, p. 289-303, p. 297ff.,

References

External links

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Bach Bibliography
bw.edu
The New Bach Edition / Series I: Cantatas
Bärenreiter
Kilian
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