Wolfgang Plath

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 Freie Universität Berlin, then at Tübingen University. 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.

Literature

References

  1. "Plath, Wolfgang" by Hans Heinrich Eggebrecht and Konrad Küster, in Grove Music Online (Subscription required)
  2. "Wach geküsst – Höhepunkte aus 50 Jahren Neue Mozart-Ausgabe", Union of German Academies of Sciences and Humanities (German)
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