Hermann Bernhard Arthur Prüfer (7 July 1860,

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– 3 June 1944,

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) was a German musicologist. He was a son of a businessman and later studied

musicology Musicology is the academic, research-based study of music, as opposed to musical composition or performance. Musicology research combines and intersects with many fields, including psychology, sociology, acoustics, neurology, natural sciences, ...

in Leipzig and

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, especially under

Philipp Spitta Julius August Philipp Spitta (27 December 1841 – 13 April 1894) was a German music historian and musicologist best known for his 1873 biography of Johann Sebastian Bach. Life He was born in , near Hoya, and his father, also called Phili ...

. Prüfer was the musicology instructor for the Polish composer and conductor, Mateusz Gliński, during his teachings the

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. As a musicologist, his noticeable contribution was the 1909 publication, the Work of Bayreuth (''Das Werk von Bayreuth''), that contains thoughts and ideas through the musical compositions by

Richard Wagner Wilhelm Richard Wagner ( ; ; 22 May 181313 February 1883) was a German composer, theatre director, essayist, and conductor who is chiefly known for his operas (or, as some of his mature works were later known, "music dramas"). Unlike most o ...

Bibliography

* ''Untersuchungen über den ausserkirchlichen Kunstgesang in den evangelischen Schulen des 16. Jahrhunderts.'' Dissertation Leipzig 1890. * ''Johann Hermann Schein'', 1895 (Reprint 1989, ISBN 3-7618-0936-0) * ''Johann Hermann Schein und das weltliche Lied des 17. Jahrhunderts'', 1903 * ''Das Werk von Bayreuth'' (Sammlung von Vorträgen über die Bayreuther Festspiele), 1909 * ''Musik als tönende Faust-Idee'', 1920 * ''Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg in 3 Aufzügen (Vollständige Dichtung mit einer Einführung in das Werk)'', 1926 * ''Einführung in Richard Wagners Lohengrin'', 2 editions 1937

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Prufer, Arthur 1860 births 1944 deaths German musicologists Academic staff of Leipzig University People from Leipzig Wagner scholars