Werner Breig

Werner Breig (born 29 June 1932) is a German musicologist and music publisher.

Life

Born in Zwickau, Breig studied Protestant sacred music at the Spandauer Kirchenmusikschule from 1950 and musicology, art history and library science at the universities Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg and Hamburg from 1955. In 1962 he received his doctorate as Dr. phil. at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg with a dissertation on Heinrich Scheidemann. He worked as research assistant at the musicological seminar of the University of Freiburg and received a scholarship from the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft for further studies. In 1973 he received his habilitation in Freiburg im Breisgau. In 1974 he became professor for musicology at the Hochschule für Musik Karlsruhe and director of the musicological institute of the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology. In 1979 he became professor for musicology at the Bergische Universität Wuppertal. From 1988 until his Emeriterus in 1997, he held the chair of musicology at the Ruhr-Universität Bochum.

His work focuses on the analysis and edition of compositions of the 17th and 18th centuries, including Johann Sebastian Bach and especially Heinrich Schütz. He founded the Schütz-Jahrbuch.

Publications
  • Die Orgelwerke von Heinrich Scheidemann.[1] Franz Steiner, Wiesbaden 1967.
  • with Werner Schulz: Richard Wagner und Karlsruhe.[2] Braun, Karlsruhe 1987.
  • Bachs Orchesterwerke.[3] Klangfarben-Musikverlag, Witten 1997.
  • Schütz-Gesamtausgaben.[4] In Reinmar Emans, Ulrich Krämer (edit): Musikeditionen im Wandel der Geschichte. de Gruyter, Berlin 2015, ISBN 978-3-11-044090-4, pp. 97–125.

as publisher:

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References
  1. Die Orgelwerke von Heinrich Scheidemann on WorldCat
  2. Richard Wagner und Karlsruhe on WorldCat
  3. Bachs Orchesterwerke : Bericht über das 1. Dortmunder Bach-Symposion, [Januar 1996] on WorldCat
  4. Schütz-Gesamtausgaben on WorldCat
  5. Opernkomposition als Prozess on WorldCat
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