Rudolf Elvers

Rudolf Elvers (18 May 1924 – 23 October 2011) was a German musicologist and librarian. He was particularly concerned with the work of Felix Mendelssohn.

Career Born in Plau am See, Elvers was born the son of a merchant. He went to school first in Plau and then to secondary school at Waren by Müritz. During his Wehrmachts years in the Second World War he was captured by soviet soldiers. After his return he studied with Walter Gerstenberg at the University of Rostock from 1946 to 1948. He then pursued doctoral studies at the Free University of Berlin where he received his doctorate in 1953. His dissertation, Untersuchungen zu den Tempi in Mozarts Instrumentalmusik''', was on tempi in the instrumental music of Mozart. He also prepared several volumes of an edition of Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy's letters, which is now published by the Kassel-based Bärenreiter-Verlag.

Elvers also worked as a music educator in his career; serving as a lecturer at the Free University of Berlin, the Technische Universität Berlin, and the Berlin University of the Arts. in Festschrift Walter Gerstenberg zum 60. Geburtstag, ed. by Georg von Dadelsen, Wolfenbüttel 1964, Die Berliner Musikverlage im 19. Jahrhundert, in Bericht über den internationalen musikwissenschaftlichen Kongreß Berlin 1974, Kassel 1980, Berliner Musikverleger, in Studien zur Musikgeschichte Berlins im frühen 19. Jahrhundert, ed. by Carl Dahlhaus, Regensburg 1980