Alfred Dürr (3 March 1918 – 7 April 2011) was a German musicologist . He was a principal editor of the Neue Bach-Ausgabe , the second edition of the complete works of Johann Sebastian Bach .
14-1010: [REDACTED] Look up Dürr in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. This article is about the surname. For the German automobile supplier, see Dürr Group . Dürr may refer to: Alfred Dürr (1918–2011), German musicologist Christian Dürr (born 1977), German politician Emil Dürr (1920–1944), Unterscharführer Françoise Dürr (born 1942), French tennis player Hans-Peter Dürr (1929–2014), German physicist Heinz Dürr (born 1933), German entrepreneur Johannes Dürr (born 1987), Austrian cross-country skier Lena Dürr (born 1991), German alpine skier, daughter of Peter Dürr Ludwig Dürr (1878–1956), German airship designer Peter Dürr (born 1960), German alpine skier Renate Dürr , (born 1961), German academic Richard Dürr (1938–2014), Swiss footballer Thomas D (Thomas Dürr, born 1968), rapper in
28-595: A Bach Museum. Directors: Presidents (new position as of 2014; Presidents are appointed for a five-year term): Projects with a major participation by the Bach Archive: In 2021, the Bach Archive acquired Gustav Mahler 's Bach edition, 59 of the 61 volumes of the Bach-Gesellschaft-Ausgabe , the first collected edition of Bach's works, with handwritten annotations by Mahler > and his arrangement of
42-690: Is an institution for the documentation and research of the life and work of Johann Sebastian Bach . The Bach-Archiv also researches the Bach family , especially their music. Based in Leipzig , the city where Bach lived from 1723 until his death, the Archiv is recognised by the German government as a "cultural beacon" of national importance. Since 2008 the Bach-Archiv has been part of the University of Leipzig . The Bach-Archiv
56-745: Is different from Wikidata All set index articles Alfred D%C3%BCrr Dürr studied musicology and Classical philology at the Georg-August-Universität Göttingen from 1945 to 1950. He wrote his thesis about Bach's early cantatas . From 1951 until his retirement in 1983 he was an employee of the Johann Sebastian Bach Institute in Göttingen, West Germany, from 1962 to 1981 its deputy director. His work involved collaboration with colleagues in East Germany. He
70-472: The University of Oxford and Baldwin–Wallace College in Ohio . His 65th birthday was marked by a Festschrift Bachiana et alia musicologica (ed. W. Rehm, Kassel, 1983). Alfred Dürr died on 7 April 2011 in Göttingen. Dürr wrote standard works on the Bach cantatas (1971) and on The Well-Tempered Clavier , which are of interest not only to specialists, but also to the general public. In 1957 he published in
84-436: The surname Dürr . If an internal link intending to refer to a specific person led you to this page, you may wish to change that link by adding the person's given name (s) to the link. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Dürr&oldid=1252757016 " Categories : Surnames Surnames from nicknames Hidden categories: Articles with short description Short description
98-586: The Bach-Archiv has been an institute of the University of Leipzig . The Bach Archive moved in 1985 from the Gohlis Palace into the historic Bosehaus opposite the Thomaskirche . The site was restored from 2008 to 2010 to comply with the latest safety requirements, and was opened again on 20 March 2010 by the President of Germany , Horst Köhler . The Neue Bachgesellschaft shares the premises, which also houses
112-590: The Bach-Jahrbuch Zur Chronologie der Leipziger Vokalwerke J. S. Bachs . In his 1988 book on Bach's St John Passion , Die Johannes-Passion von Johann Sebastian Bach , he explored theological aspects as well as the four versions of the work. Many of Bach's works have uncertain composition dates, and the standard catalogue, the Bach-Werke-Verzeichnis , is not a chronological one. Nevertheless, modern scholarship has been able to throw light on
126-518: The Gavotte from Bach's Orchestral Suite, BWV 1068 . The edition had been in private possession, and will become open to musicologists and the public for the first time, as Wollny told the press. Today the Bach-Archiv is a renowned center of Bach research with a scientific library for Bach topics. There is engagement with a wider public via the Bach-Museum and via performances of Bach's music, especially
140-542: The German hip hop group Die Fantastischen Vier Thomas Dürr (bobsledder) (born 1978), bobsledder from Liechtenstein Walther Dürr (1932–2018), German musicologist Wilhelm Dürr the Younger (1857–1900), German painter and draughtsman See also [ edit ] All pages with titles containing Dürr Duerr (disambiguation) Durr (disambiguation) [REDACTED] Surname list This page lists people with
154-507: The chronology. Dürr's "painstaking work" changed the accepted chronology of Bach's works, especially his cantatas. The musicologist John Butt remarked: If one had to single out the scholar who has done most to establish the new chronology of Bach's vocal works and who appears most often as an editor within the Neue Bach-Ausgabe, this would surely have to be Dürr. Bach-Archiv Leipzig The Bach-Archiv Leipzig or Bach-Archiv
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#1732852405242168-734: The second edition of Bach's complete works, the Neue Bach-Ausgabe , was a joint project between the Bach-Archiv and the Johann-Sebastian-Bach-Institut in Göttingen , West Germany. After unification the Bach-Archiv became part of the Konferenz Nationaler Kultureinrichtungen , a union of more than twenty cultural organizations in the former East Germany which are deemed to be nationally significant. The Göttingen Institute closed in 2006. Since 23 November 2008
182-731: Was a principal editor of the Neue Bach-Ausgabe , a project which was divided between the Johann Sebastian Bach Institute and the Bach-Archiv Leipzig in East Germany. From 1953 to 1974 Dürr was editor of the Bach-Jahrbuch (Bach almanach), together with Werner Neumann , the founder and director of the Bach-Archiv Leipzig. Dürr received honorary doctorates of music from the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin ,
196-574: Was founded on the occasion of the bicentennial of Bach's death in 1950 by Werner Neumann , who remained its director until 1973. It served as a central archive for manuscripts and historic documents connected to the composer and a central research center related to him and his family. At the time of the institution's foundation Leipzig was in East Germany . Prior to German unification there was collaboration with Bach experts in West Germany . For example,
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