Wolfgang Plath Explained

Wolfgang Plath (27 December 1930 – 19 March 1995) was a German musicologist specialising in research on Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.

Life

Born in Riga, Plath studied musicology under Walter Gerstenberg, first at the Free University of Berlin, then at University of Tübingen. His PhD thesis in 1958 dealt with the Klavierbüchlein für Wilhelm Friedemann Bach.^[1]

In 1959, he became the assistant of Ernst Fritz Schmid in Augsburg and the International Mozarteum Foundation appointed him, together with Wolfgang Rehm, editor of the Neue Mozart-Ausgabe; Plath held this position until his death.^[2] He also worked as honorary professor at the universities of Augsburg and Salzburg.

In 1977, he received the Austrian Decoration for Science and Art, 1st Class. He died in Augsburg, aged 64.

Further reading

• Dietrich Berke: In Marianne Danckwardt und Wolf-Dieter Seiffert (eds.): (1930–1995). Augsburg, 13 to 16 June 2000. Bärenreiter, Kassel etc. 2003, .
• Wolfgang Rehm: Wolfgang Plath (1930–1995). In Die Musikforschung, 48 (1995), vol. 3. Kassel, July–September 1995, .
• Wolfgang Rehm: Wolfgang Plath in memoriam. In , 43 (1995), vol. 1–2, Salzburg, June 1995, .
• Wolfgang Rehm: In , 44 (1996), vol. 1–2, Salzburg, June 1996, .

External links

• Works edited by Wolfgang Plath at the International Music Score Library Project

Notes and References

1. http://www.oxfordmusiconline.com/subscriber/article/grove/music/21921 "Plath, Wolfgang"
2. Web site: Wach geküsst – Höhepunkte aus 50 Jahren Neue Mozart-Ausgabe . January 2006 . . 2023-03-26 . https://web.archive.org/web/20090526062804/https://www.akademienunion.de/newsletter/2006-01/forschungaktuell/nmachronik/ . 2009-05-26.