Jürgen Maehder

Jürgen Maehder (born 1950) is a German musicologist and opera director. He discovered Franco Alfano's original version of the finale for the third act of Puccini's Turandot. He has lectured and staged opera internationally.

Career Born in Duisburg, Maehder studied in Munich and Berne, where his professors included Thrasybulos Georgiades and Stefan Kunze (musicology), Günter Bialas (composition), Arnold Metzger (philosophy), Klaus Lazarowicz (theatre history), August Everding (opera production) and Walther Killy (German literature). He took his doctorate at the University of Berne in 1977 with a dissertation entitled Klangfarbe als Bauelement des musikalischen Satzes: Zur Kritik des Instrumentationsbegriffes (Timbre as structural element of orchestral texture: towards a criticism of the term orchestration).