Peter Wollny was born on 29 June 1961 and is a German musicologist, a Bach scholar who has served the Bach Archive Leipzig beginning in 1993, and as its director from 2014.
11 Facts About Peter Wollny
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Peter Wollny has been professor at the University of Leipzig, and teaching internationally.
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Peter Wollny received an honorary doctorate from the University of Uppsala.
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Peter Wollny has worked scientifically at the Bach Archive Leipzig, beginning that year.
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Peter Wollny has been director of the Bach Archive from 2014, and was instrumental in returning the manuscript score of O Ewigkeit, du Donnerwort, BWV 20, to Leipzig.
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Peter Wollny is dramaturge of the Bach Archive's Bachfest Leipzig festival.
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Peter Wollny has been professor at the University of Leipzig since 2014.
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Peter Wollny has taught regularly in Dresden, and as a guest in Weimar, and the Universitat der Kunst and Humboldt University in Berlin.
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Peter Wollny received an honorary doctorate of the University of Uppsala in 2020.
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Peter Wollny has been the editor of the Jahrbuch Mitteldeutsche Barockmusik from 2002, and of the Bach-Jahrbuch from 2005.
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Peter Wollny's publications focus on the Bach family and the music history of the 17th and 18th centuries.