Matthias Herrmann


Matthias Herrmann is a German musicologist and university professor.

Life

Born in Mildenau, as a young man Herrmann was a member of the Dresdner Kreuzchor under the Kreuzkantors Rudolf Mauersberger and Martin Flämig. He then studied musicology at the University of Leipzig and later became a staff member of the music department of the Saxon State Library in Dresden as well as the cultural editorial office of the '.
He wrote his doctorate about the court-music of the House of Wettin in Dresden around 1500 and habilitated on compositional work, especially the early work of Rudolf Mauersberger. He worked as a scientific assistant and senior assistant at the in Dresden and was appointed to a professorship for music history at the Institute for Musicology of the Hochschule für Musik Carl Maria von Weber Dresden in 1993.
He publishes the Sächsische Studien zur älteren Musikgeschichte at the Klaus-Jürgen Kamprad publishing house in Altenburg and the Dresdner Schriften zur Musik and the Schriften des Dresdner Kreuzchores at the Tectum publishing house in Marburg/Baden-Baden.
Herrmann is a member of the editorial board of the ' and a board member of ther . He was spokesman of the association "Heinrich Schütz in Dresden", and a longstanding member of the cultural advisory board of the state capital Dresden, the project group music of the Dresden cultural office among others.

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