Werner Breig

Werner Breig (born June 29, 1932 in Zwickau ) is a German musicologist and music editor.

Life

Werner Breig studied from 1950 Protestant church music at the Berlin church music school in the Johannesstift and from 1955 musicology, art history and library studies at the universities of Erlangen-Nuremberg and Hamburg . 1962 followed the doctorate to the Dr. phil. at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg with a dissertation on Heinrich Scheidemann . He worked as a research assistant at the musicological seminar at the University of Freiburg i. Br. And received a grant from the German Research Foundation for further studies . In 1973 he completed his habilitation in Freiburg im Breisgau . In 1974 he became professor of musicology at the Karlsruhe University of Music and head of the musicological institute at the University of Karlsruhe . In 1979 he went to the University of Wuppertal as a professor of musicology . From 1988 until his retirement in 1997 he held the musicological chair at the University of Bochum .

The focus of his work is the analysis and edition of compositions from the 17th and 18th centuries, including Johann Sebastian Bach and above all Heinrich Schütz . He founded the Schütz yearbook .

Heinrich Scheidemann's organ works . Franz Steiner, Wiesbaden 1967.
with Werner Schulz: Richard Wagner and Karlsruhe . Braun, Karlsruhe 1987.
Bach's orchestral works . Klangfarben-Musikverlag, Witten 1997.
Complete Schütz issues . In: Reinmar Emans, Ulrich Krämer (Hrsg.): Music editions in the course of history . de Gruyter, Berlin 2015, ISBN 978-3-11-044090-4 , pp. 97–125.

as editor:

personal data
SURNAME	Breig, Werner
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German musicologist and music editor
DATE OF BIRTH	June 29, 1932
PLACE OF BIRTH	Zwickau