Max Seiffert

Maximilian Seiffert (9 February 1868 – 15 April 1948)[1] was a German musicologist and editor of Baroque music.[2]

Biography

Seiffert was born in Beeskow an der Spree, Kingdom of Prussia, the son of a teacher. He was first educated at the Joachimsthal Gymnasium, in Berlin, where he studied under Philipp Spitta, and then at the University of Berlin where he received a Ph.D. in 1891 for his dissertation J. P. Sweelinck und seine direkten deutschen Schüler (Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck and his German pupils).[2]

He died in Schleswig, Germany on the fifteenth, of April, 1948.

Career

As well as producing modern editions of organ pieces by Bach and Buxtehude, Seiffert was responsible for the following:[2]

• Making piano transcriptions of some of Bach's works (in association with Max Schneider).[3]
• Assisting with the editing of the Händel-Gesellschaft.[4]

In 1938 he received the Goethe Medal for Art and Science.[5]

References

1. The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians. London: Macmillan Publishers, 1980.
2. bach-cantatas.com/Lib/Seiffert-Max.htm
3. bach-cantatas.com/NVD/PT-Seiffert
4. gfhandel.org – editions Archived 2007-03-10 at the Wayback Machine
5. Ernst Klee: Das Kulturlexikon zum Dritten Reich. Wer war was vor und nach 1945. S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2007, S. 566.