Steffen Voss

Steffen Voss (born June 15, 1969 in Hamburg) is a German musicologist and musician.

He became known as the discoverer and editor of the long-lost opera Motezuma RV 723 by Antonio Vivaldi , which he found in the archive of the Sing-Akademie zu Berlin . After a complicated legal battle over the question of the editio princeps , the opera could finally be performed. In 2006 the first modern revival of the opera pasticcio Giove in Argo by Georg Friedrich Händel was performed in Bayreuth , also edited by him and arranged in collaboration with Thomas Synofzik .

Steffen Voss works as a baroque bassoonist in various early music ensembles. Since 2012 he has been an editor in the Munich working groups of Répertoire International des Sources Musicales in Munich. In 2014 he received his doctorate from the Rijksuniversiteit Utrecht with a thesis on theatrical church music "Studies on church music and secular vocal music in Hamburg in the first half of the 18th century" (publication on qucosa in preparation).

Book publication: The music collection in the Udestedt parish archive . Studies on the music history of Thuringia in the 17th and 18th centuries (= writings on Central German music history, volume 10), Schneverdingen, Verlag für Musikbücher Karl Dieter Wagner, 2006 ( ISBN 978-3-88979-095-8 )

literature

• Steffen Voss: The score of Vivaldi's opera "Motezuma" (1733), in: Studi Vivaldiani 4 (2004), pp. 53–73 ( ISSN  1594-0012 )

Web links

• Literature by and about Steffen Voss in the catalog of the German National Library