Sieghard Brandenburg


Sieghard Brandenburg was a German musicologist, who stood out especially as a Beethoven researcher.

Life

Born in Bad Frankenhausen, Brandenburg studied music, musicology and mathematics at the Hochschule für Musik Freiburg and at the Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, later musicology, mathematics and modern history at the University of Bonn. In 1968 he became a research assistant at the Beethoven Archive Bonn and in 1984 director of the Beethoven Archive. One of his most important projects was the publication of Ludwig van Beethoven's correspondence, which appeared in seven volumes from 1996 to 1998.
In 2000, at the suggestion of Rainer Cadenbach, the Berlin University of the Arts - now the Universität der Künste Berlin - awarded him an honorary doctorate.
After his retirement he moved to the small village of Galmsbüll in North Frisia, where he died in 2015 at age 77.

Writings

Books and independent publications