About Max Seiffert
Lived 1868 – 1948 (aged 80). Max Seiffert was a German musicologist and harpsichordist.
Maximilian Seiffert (9 February 1868 – 15 April 1948) was a German musicologist and editor of Baroque music.
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). Assisting with the editing of the Händel-Gesellschaft.
In 1938 he received the Goethe Medal for Art and Science.
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Who was Max Seiffert?
German musicologist (1868–1948)
When was Max Seiffert born?
Max Seiffert was born on 9 February 1868 in Beeskow.
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Max Seiffert died on 15 April 1948 in Schleswig.
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Max Seiffert was a musicologist and harpsichordist.
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Max Seiffert was German.
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