Hermann Neef (28 September 1936 – 24 August 2017) was a German musicologist and theatre scholar.

Life

Born in Berlin, Neef worked from 1960-1973 at the VEB Deutsche Schallplatten in Berlin. Since 1973 he was at the Komische Oper Berlin, and since 1981 Neef has also been a lecturer at the . Neef wrote - often together with his wife,

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- scientific treatises on opera research as well as record reviews, specialist articles and several ballet libretti (for example to music by

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, Jean Sibelius,

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and Werner Egk). Neef died in

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in 2017 at the age of 80.

Publications

* ''Der Beamte im nationalsozialistischen Führerstaat : Rede gehalten auf dem Reichsparteitagein Nürnberg am 8. Sept. 1934''. * Hermann Neef (with Sigrid Neef): ''Handbuch der russischen und sowjetischen Oper''. . DDR-Berlin, 1985. * ''Der Beitrag der Komponisten Friedrich Goldmann, Friedrich Schenker,

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and Walter Thomas Heyn zur ästhetischen Diskussion der Gattung Oper in der DDR seit 1977''. Dissertation, Halle 1989 * Hermann Neef (with Sigrid Neef): ''Deutsche Oper im 20. Jahrhundert: DDR 1949–1989''.''Deutsche Oper im 20. Jahrhundert : DDR 1949-1989''
on WorldCat Peter Lang (publisher), 1992.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Neef, Hermann German librettists 20th-century German musicologists 1936 births 2017 deaths Musicologists from Berlin