{{Short description|German musicologist (1868–1948)}} '''Maximilian Seiffert''' (9 February 1868 – 15 April 1948)<ref>''The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians''. London: Macmillan Publishers, 1980.</ref> was a German musicologist and editor of Baroque music.<ref name="bach_cantatas_lib">[http://www.bach-cantatas.com/Lib/Seiffert-Max.htm bach-cantatas.com/Lib/Seiffert-Max.htm]</ref>
==Biography== Seiffert was born in Beeskow an der Spree, Kingdom of Prussia, the son of a teacher. He was first educated at the Joachimsthal Gymnasium, in Berlin, where he studied under Philipp Spitta, and then at the University of Berlin where he received a Ph.D. in 1891 for his dissertation ''J. P. Sweelinck und seine direkten deutschen Schüler (Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck and his German pupils)''.<ref name="bach_cantatas_lib" />
He died in Schleswig, Germany on the fifteenth, of April, 1948.
==Career== As well as producing modern editions of organ pieces by Bach and Buxtehude, Seiffert was responsible for the following:<ref name="bach_cantatas_lib" /> *Making piano transcriptions of some of Bach's works (in association with Max Schneider).<ref>[http://www.bach-cantatas.com/NVD/PT-Seiffert.htm bach-cantatas.com/NVD/PT-Seiffert]</ref> *Assisting with the editing of the Händel-Gesellschaft.<ref>[http://gfhandel.org/edition.htm gfhandel.org – editions] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070310153712/http://gfhandel.org/edition.htm |date=2007-03-10 }}</ref>
In 1938 he received the Goethe Medal for Art and Science.<ref name="Klee566">Ernst Klee: ''Das Kulturlexikon zum Dritten Reich. Wer war was vor und nach 1945''. S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2007, S. 566.</ref>
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