About Georg von Dadelsen
Lived 1918 – 2007 (aged 88). Georg von Dadelsen was a German musicologist and university teacher.
Georg von Dadelsen (17 November 1918 – 25 May 2007) was a German musicologist, who taught at the University of Hamburg and the University of Tübingen. He focused on Johann Sebastian Bach, his family and his environment, and the chronology of his works. As director of the Johann Sebastian Bach Institute in Göttingen, he influenced the Neue Bach-Ausgabe (NBA), the second complete edition of Bach's works.
Life Von Dadelsen was born in Dresden. He obtained his Abitur at the humanistic Gymnasium in Berlin-Zehlendorf. After military service and captivity, he studied musicology at the University of Kiel with Blume from 1946, 1957: Bemerkungen zur Handschrift Johann Sebastian Bachs, seiner Familie und seines Kreises, in Tübinger Bach-Studien I, Trossingen 1958: Beitrag zur Chronologie der Werke Johann Sebastian Bachs, Habilitation at the Tübingen University, Tübinger Bach-Studien IV und V, Tübingen 1967: Editionsrichtlinien musikalischer Denkmäler und Gesamtausgaben, published on behalf of the Gesellschaft für Musikforschung, Kassel 1985: Bachs Werke im Originaltext – Aufgaben und Erkenntnisse der Neuen Bach-Ausgabe. In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung. 16 March 1985. (re-printed in Johann-Sebastian-Bach-Institut Göttingen und Bach-Archiv Leipzig (eds.): Die Neue Bach-Ausgabe 1954–2007 – Eine Dokumentation. Bärenreiter, Kassel/Basel/London/New York/Prag 2007.)
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German musicologist (1918–2007)
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Georg von Dadelsen was born on 17 November 1918 in Dresden.
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Georg von Dadelsen died on 25 May 2007 in Tübingen.
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Georg von Dadelsen was a musicologist and university teacher.
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