Sieghard Brandenburg (21 January 1938 – 18 December 2015) was a German musicologist, who stood out especially as a Beethoven researcher.
Life
Born in Bad Frankenhausen, Brandenburg studied music (main subject oboe), 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
Die Beethoven-Autographen der Sammlung Prof. Dr. Walter Henn Braunschweig, beschrieben und kommentiert von Martin Staehelin, unter Mitarbeit von Sieghard Brandenburg, Bonn 1983 Ein Brief von Beethovens Großneffen Louis von Hoven an seine Schwester Marie Weidinger in Wien aus dem Jahre 1875, Bonn 1984 Ludwig van Beethoven, Der Briefwechsel mit dem Verlag Schott, ed. by Sieghard Brandenburg, Munich 1985 Der Freundeskreis der Familie Malfatti, Bonn 1985 Ludwig van Beethoven, Der , ed. by Sieghard Brandenburg, Bonn 1986 (Facsimile-Ausgabe) Beethovens Tagebuch, ed. by Maynard Solomon, new edition by Sieghard Brandenburg, Mainz 1990 Ludwig van Beethoven, Ein Brief an Franz Anton Hoffmeister in Leipzig, ed. by Sieghard Brandenburg, Bonn 1992 (Faccsimile-Ausgabe) Ludwig van Beethoven, Briefwechsel. Gesamtausgabe, ed. by Sieghard Brandenburg, 7 volumes, Munich 1996–1998 Ludwig van Beethoven, Ein Brief an Karl Friedrich Müller in Berlin, ed. by Sieghard Brandenburg, Bonn 1992, Facsimile-Ausgabe Ludwig van Beethoven, Zwei Blätter aus seinem Tagebuch, ed. by Sieghard Brandenburg, Bonn 1992, Facsimile-Ausgabe Ein Brief Anton Schindlers an Gerhard von Breuning. Aus der Anfangszeit der Beethoven-Biographik, ed. by Sieghard Brandenburg, Bonn 1993 Ludwig van Beethoven, Punktierstich von Blasius Höfel after Louis Letronne, Vienna 1814, ed. by Sieghard Brandenburg, Bonn 1994 Beethovens Briefe. Editionen aus zwei Jahrhunderten. Eine Ausstellung des Beethoven-Hauses Bonn, ed. by Sieghard Brandenburg, Bonn 1996 Ludwig van Beethoven, Ein Brief an Franz Gerhard Wegeler in Bonn, ed. by Sieghard Brandenburg, Bonn 1997 Ludwig van Beethoven, Heiligenstadt Testament, ed. by Sieghard Brandenburg, Bonn 1997, Facsimile-Ausgabe Ludwig van Beethoven, „… mit Hochachtung ihr Freund Beethoven“. Ein Brief an die Sängerin Anna Milder-Hauptmann, ed. by Sieghard Brandenburg, Bonn 2002