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 .
9-1010: [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
18-745: 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
27-570: 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
36-436: 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
45-590: 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
54-542: 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
63-511: 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-Jahrbuch The Bach-Jahrbuch ("Bach yearbook" or according to
72-530: The publication's website "Bach Annals") is an annual publication related to the composer Bach. It is published in German by the Neue Bachgesellschaft in Leipzig . It is the most respected publication for international Bach research. The Bach-Jahrbuch contains contributions of notable Bach scholars related to recent research of Bach and his family. It also provides a Bach bibliography . Begun in 1904, it
81-790: 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 ,
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