Klaus Hofmann, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

    

Klaus Hofmann

German musicologist

Date of Birth: 20-Mar-1939

Place of Birth: Würzburg, Bavaria, Germany

Profession: musicologist

Nationality: Germany

Zodiac Sign: Pisces


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About Klaus Hofmann

  • Klaus Hofmann (born 20 March 1939) is a German musicologist who is an expert on the music of Johann Sebastian Bach. Born in Würzburg, Hofmann studied after graduation (1958) from 1958 to 1959 at the University of Erlangen.
  • He then continued his studies at the Albert-Ludwigs-University Freiburg.
  • In 1968 he received his doctorate with a dissertation "Untersuchungen zur Kompositionstechnik der Motette im 13.
  • Jahrhundert, durchgeführt an den Motetten mit dem Tenor IN SECULUM" (Studies on the composition technique of the motet in the 13th century, performed on the motets with tenor IN SECULUM).
  • From 1968 to 1978 he worked as an employee of the Hänssler Verlag.
  • From 1978 he was a research assistant of the Johann Sebastian Bach Institute in Göttingen, one of the two institutions which prepared the Neue Bach-Ausgabe, the second complete edition of Bach's work.
  • In 2004 he was appointed to the position of Executive Director, a position which he held until the Institute closed in 2006.He is a board member of the Verwertungsgesellschaft Musikedition.
  • In 1994 he was appointed honorary professor at the Georg-August-Universität Göttingen.

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