Max Seiffert

Maximilian Seiffert (9 February 1868 – 15 April 1948)^[1] was a German musicologist and editor of Baroque music.^[2]

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).^[2]

He died in Schleswig, Germany on the fifteenth, of April, 1948.

Career

As well as producing modern editions of organ pieces by Bach and Buxtehude, Seiffert was responsible for the following:^[2]

• Making piano transcriptions of some of Bach's works (in association with Max Schneider).^[3]
• Assisting with the editing of the Händel-Gesellschaft.^[4]

In 1938 he received the Goethe Medal for Art and Science.^[5]