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*Arranged piano transcriptions of some of Bach's works (in association with Max Schneider).<ref>[http://www.bach-cantatas.com/NVD/PT-Seiffert.htm bach-cantatas.com/NVD/PT-Seiffert]</ref> |
*Arranged piano transcriptions of some of Bach's works (in association with Max Schneider).<ref>[http://www.bach-cantatas.com/NVD/PT-Seiffert.htm bach-cantatas.com/NVD/PT-Seiffert]</ref> |
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*Assisted with the editing of the [[Händel-Gesellschaft]].<ref> |
*Assisted with the editing of the [[Händel-Gesellschaft]].<ref>[http://gfhandel.org/edition.htm gfhandel.org — editions</ref> |
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*Editor-in-chief of Sammelbände der internationalen Musik-Gesellschaft from 1903 to 1914. |
*Editor-in-chief of Sammelbände der internationalen Musik-Gesellschaft from 1903 to 1914. |
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*Edited the Archiv fur Musikwissenschaft from 1918 to 1926 (with Johannes Wolf und Max Schneider). |
*Edited the Archiv fur Musikwissenschaft from 1918 to 1926 (with Johannes Wolf und Max Schneider). |
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Max Seiffert (9 February 1868 – 13 April 1948) was a German Musicologist and music arranger.[1]
Biography
Seiffert was born in Beeskow an der Spree, Germany; and died in Schleswig, Germany. He was first educated at the Joachimsthal Gymnasium at Berlin, and then at the University of Berlin where he received a Ph.D. in 1891 for the dissertaion J.P. Sweelinck und seine direkten deutschen Schüler.[1]
Career
Seiffert's career includes the following:[1]
- Arranged piano transcriptions of some of Bach's works (in association with Max Schneider).[2]
- Assisted with the editing of the Händel-Gesellschaft.[3]
- Editor-in-chief of Sammelbände der internationalen Musik-Gesellschaft from 1903 to 1914.
- Edited the Archiv fur Musikwissenschaft from 1918 to 1926 (with Johannes Wolf und Max Schneider).
- Taught at Berlin's Hochschule für Musik and at the Akademie für Kirchen- und Schulmusik (from 1909).
- Served as provisional director of the Fürstliches Forschungsintitut für Musikwissenschaft in Bückeburg (from 1921).
- After joining the the Staatliches Institut für deutsche Musikforschung in Berlin in 1935, he served as its director until 1942.
- Published Gescbichte der Klaviermusik (Berlin, 1899-1901), nominally the 3rd edition of Weitzmann's history, but actually a new and valuable study.
- Contributed many editions to the Denkmüler Deutscher Tonkunst series (1892-1927).
- Edited the works of Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck (12 volumes, 1895-1901).
Several volumes of the various series of D.D.T. Festschrifts were published in his honour for his 70th (1938) and 80th (1948) birthdays.
References
- ^ a b c bach-cantatas.com/Lib/Seiffert-Max.htm
- ^ bach-cantatas.com/NVD/PT-Seiffert
- ^ [http://gfhandel.org/edition.htm gfhandel.org — editions
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