Max Seiffert
Max Seiffert (born February 9, 1868 in Beeskow , † April 13, 1948 in Schleswig ) was a German musicologist and editor of early music .
Life
Max Seiffert, the son of a teacher, studied with Philipp Spitta in Berlin . His dissertation was titled Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck and his direct German students ( Berlin , 1891). As permanent secretary of the Prussian Monuments Commission, Seiffert published the first volume of the Monuments of German Music Art (DDT) in 1892 . In Berlin he taught from 1909 at the University of Music and at the Academy for Church and School Music. In 1918 he was one of the founders and first editors of the journal Archive for Musicology with Johannes Wolf and Max Schneider. In 1928 he received an honorary doctorate (Dr. theol. Hc) from the Christian Albrechts University in Kiel .
After the " seizure of power " by the National Socialists , Seiffert was a member of the NSDAP from 1935 . From 1935 to 1942 he was director of the State Institute for German Music Research, which he had provisionally headed as the “Princely Research Institute for Musicology” in Bückeburg since 1921 . His successor was Hans Albrecht , who headed the institute until it closed in 1944. In 1938 he received the Goethe Medal for Art and Science . After the Second World War he lived in Schleswig, where he died in 1948.
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Max Seiffert's importance for musicology lies primarily in his diverse editing activities . He edited works by Johann Sebastian Bach , Dietrich Buxtehude , Johann and Johann Philipp Krieger , Liebhold , Leopold Mozart , Johann Pachelbel , Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck , Georg Philipp Telemann , Franz Tunder , Samuel Scheidt , Johann Gottfried Walther , Matthias Weckmann and Friedrich Wilhelm Zachow .
Max Seiffert's letters are in the holdings of the Leipzig music publisher CF Peters in the Leipzig State Archives .
See also
Web links
- Literature by and about Max Seiffert in the catalog of the German National Library
- Works by and about Max Seiffert in the German Digital Library
Individual evidence
- ^ A b Fred K. Prieberg : Handbook of German Musicians 1933–1945. CD-Rom Lexicon. Kiel 2004, p. 6.557.
- ^ A b Ernst Klee : The cultural lexicon for the Third Reich. Who was what before and after 1945. S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 978-3-10-039326-5 , p. 566.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Seiffert, Max |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German musicologist, editor of early music |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 9, 1868 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Beeskow |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 13, 1948 |
| Place of death | Schleswig |