Dietrich Kilian


Dietrich Kilian was a German musicologist.

Career

Kilian was born in Roßlau. He studied at the Freie Universität Berlin and earned the doctorate in 1956 with a thesis "Das Vokalwerk D. Buxtehudes – Quellenstudien zu seiner Überlieferung und Verwendung". He was from 1958 an editor of the Neue Bach-Ausgabe, the critical edition of the complete works by Johann Sebastian Bach, editing, including critical reports, for the rest of his life, on the cantatas, the orchestral works and the organ works. With Alfred Dürr and Klaus Hofmann and others, he authored Kritischer Bericht.
He rediscovered and published in 1963 the prelude in C major by Buxtehude.

Selected works