Uwe Wolf (musicologist)

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Uwe Wolf (* 1961 in Kassel ) is a German musicologist . He worked for the Johann Sebastian Bach Institute in Göttingen and the Bach Archive in Leipzig , where he digitally developed the digital Bach library . Since 2011 he has been chief editor at Carus-Verlag .

Life

Wolf studied musicology as well as history and historical auxiliary sciences at the Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen and the Georg-August University of Göttingen , where he received his doctorate in 1991. Until 2003 he worked as a research assistant at the Johann Sebastian Bach Institute in Göttingen, which was responsible for the New Bach Edition . From 2004 he worked in Leipzig , initially for the Bach Repertory project of the Saxon Academy of Sciences .

Page from the Credo from Bach's B minor Mass, revised by CPE Bach

From 2005 to 2011 he worked for the Leipzig Bach Archive as head of the research department. He was responsible for the new design of the Bach Museum Leipzig and for the Bach digital library . Wolf used micro- X-ray fluorescence spectrometry analysis (micro-XRF) to distinguish the similar manuscripts of Johann Sebastian Bach and his son Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach in the score of the B minor Mass , which the son had revised. The inks that father and son used differed in their lead content. Wolf published the B minor Mass in the revised edition of the New Bach Edition.

Wolf has been head editor at Carus-Verlag in Stuttgart since 2011 as the successor to the publisher's founder Günter Graulich . He taught at universities in Göttingen, Pavia and Leipzig . He is a member of the editorial board for various complete editions.

Publications

Wolf was one of the editors of the New Bach Edition and its revised version. He was involved in CPE Bach: The Complete Works , and other complete editions. He edited a series of selected works by Gottfried August Homilius . He wrote music history works on the 17th and 18th centuries as well as on editing techniques.

His publications for Carus include:

The critical edition of Monteverdi's Marian Vespers has been recognized for its flexibility to serve ensembles of various sizes and compositions.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g Carus-Verlag / Dr. Uwe Wolf . 2011. Retrieved September 9, 2019.
  2. ^ Robin A. Leaver: The Routledge Research Companion to Johann Sebastian Bach ( English ). Taylor & Francis , 2016, ISBN 978-1-31-545280-7 , p. 66.
  3. ↑ a b Daniel F. Boomhower: Review: Bach Mass in B minor . In: Music Library Association (ed.): Notes . 2012.
  4. ↑ a b c Uwe Wolf . Carus publishing house . Retrieved September 9, 2019.
  5. ^ Josef Estermann: Monteverdi variable . Swiss music newspaper. April 22, 2015. Accessed September 9, 2019.
personal data
SURNAME Wolf, Uwe
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German musicologist and lecturer
DATE OF BIRTH 1961
PLACE OF BIRTH kassel