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Hermann Neef

1936 – 2017

Musicologist and theatre scholar

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Lived 1936 – 2017 (aged 80). Hermann Neef was a German musicologist.

Hermann Neef (28 September 1936 – 24 August 2017) was a German musicologist and theatre scholar.

Life Born in Berlin, Neef worked from 1960-1973 at the VEB Deutsche Schallplatten in Berlin. Since 1973 he was at the Komische Oper Berlin, and since 1981 Neef has also been a lecturer at the .

Neef wrote - often together with his wife, Sigrid Neef - scientific treatises on opera research as well as record reviews, specialist articles and several ballet libretti (for example to music by Richard Wagner, Jean Sibelius, Franz Schreker, Igor Strawinsky and Werner Egk).

Neef died in Beverungen in 2017 at the age of 80.

Publications Der Beamte im nationalsozialistischen Führerstaat : Rede gehalten auf dem Reichsparteitagein Nürnberg am 8. Sept. 1934. Hermann Neef (with Sigrid Neef): Handbuch der russischen und sowjetischen Oper. . DDR-Berlin, 1985. Der Beitrag der Komponisten Friedrich Goldmann, Friedrich Schenker, Paul-Heinz Dittrich and Walter Thomas Heyn zur ästhetischen Diskussion der Gattung Oper in der DDR seit 1977. Dissertation, Halle 1989 Hermann Neef (with Sigrid Neef): Deutsche Oper im 20. Jahrhundert: DDR 1949–1989. Peter Lang (publisher), 1992.

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Who was Hermann Neef?

musicologist and theatre scholar

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Hermann Neef was born on 28 September 1936 in Berlin.

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Hermann Neef died on 10 August 2017 in Beverungen.

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Hermann Neef was a musicologist.

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Hermann Neef was German.

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· Wikipedia: Hermann Neef

· Wikidata: Q20748016

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