Siegfried Dehn, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Place of Birth: Altona, Hamburg, Germany
About Siegfried Dehn
- Siegfried Wilhelm (von) Dehn (24 or 25 February 1799 – 12 April 1858) was a German music theorist, editor, teacher and librarian. Born in Altona, Dehn was the son of a banker and learned to play the cello as a boy.
- Intent on becoming a diplomat, he studied law in Leipzig but also took music lessons from J.
- A.
- Dröbs.
- While attached to the Swedish embassy in Berlin, Dehn developed an interest in musical research, studying with Bernhard Klein.
- He was left destitute by the failure of the family bank in 1830 and decided to devote himself to music; he soon became known and respected widely as a musical theorist and teacher.In 1842, composer Giacomo Meyerbeer recommended Dehn to fill the post of custodian of the Prussian royal library.
- Dehn threw himself into cataloging the collection, bringing it into order and adding to it copiously from libraries all over Prussia.
- Among the collections he amassed were those of Anton Schindler and Georg Pölchau; the latter was especially notable for its manuscripts by Johann Sebastian Bach and Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach.
- Dehn was also editor of Cäcilia from 1842 to 1848 and professor of the Royal Academy of the Arts from 1849.
- On the death of Friedrich Conrad Griepenkerl in 1849, Dehn helped edit J.S.
- Bach's instrumental music for the Peters Edition.
- He was responsible for, among other works, the first publishing of the Brandenburg concertos.
- He also edited a large number of Lassus motets.Dehn was widely respected as a teacher.
- His students included Albert Becker, Ludwig Bussler, Peter Cornelius, Mikhail Glinka, Heinrich Hofmann, Gustav Nottebohm, and Anton Rubinstein.
- See: List of music students by teacher: C to F#Siegfried Dehn. He died in Berlin.
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| Date of birth/death | 8 December 1815 | 9 February 1905 | |
| Location of birth/death | Wroclaw | Berlin | |
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