Carl Georg Vivigens von WinterfeldBernhard Stockmann

MGG 2016 (28 January 1784 – 19 February 1852) was a German lawyer and

musicologist Musicology is the academic, research-based study of music, as opposed to musical composition or performance. Musicology research combines and intersects with many fields, including psychology, sociology, acoustics, neurology, natural sciences, f ...

. He studied music from the 16th to 18th centuries, and was instrumental in reviving it, especially the music by

Heinrich Schütz Heinrich Schütz (; 6 November 1672) was a German early Baroque music, Baroque composer and organ (music), organist, generally regarded as the most important German composer before Johann Sebastian Bach and one of the most important composers of ...

Life

Winterfeld was born in Berlin. His parents were Karl Friedrich Gotthilf von Winterfeldt (17 May 1757 - 14 September 1824) and his wife Sophie Elisabeth Helene Wilhelmine von Köhler (28 March 1754 – 13 April 1821). Winterfeld studied law at the

University of Halle Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg (), also referred to as MLU, is a public research university in the cities of Halle and Wittenberg. It is the largest and oldest university in the German state of Saxony-Anhalt. MLU offers German and i ...

from 1803, and was appointed as a judge in Breslau in 1816. After his return to Berlin in 1832, he was appointed Obertribunalrat, and in 1839 became an honorary member of the

Prussian Academy of Arts The Prussian Academy of Arts () was a state arts academy first established in 1694 by prince-elector Frederick III of Electorate of Brandenburg, Brandenburg in Berlin, in personal union Duke Frederick I of Prussia, and later king in Kingdom of ...

. Winterfeld was a founding member of the

Bach-Gesellschaft The German Bach-Gesellschaft (Bach Society) was a society formed in 1850 for the express purpose of publishing the complete works of Johann Sebastian Bach without editorial additions. The collected works are known as the Bach-Gesellschaft-Aus ...

and since 1835 a member of the

Gesetzlose Gesellschaft zu Berlin The Gesetzlose Gesellschaft zu Berlin (literally, the 'Berlin Lawless Society' because it had no internal rules) is a social society founded in Berlin in 1809 in the aftermath of the Battle of Jena-Auerstedt to press for the reform of Prussian gove ...

. Winterfeld is credited with the rediscovery of

, publishing works by Schütz in his work about Gabrieli in 1834. In 1812, he undertook a journey to Italy, where he made copies of compositions from the 16th to 18th centuries. He found more music from the period in Breslau. His collection is kept in the

Berlin State Library The Berlin State Library (; officially abbreviated as ''SBB'', colloquially ''Stabi'') is a universal library in Berlin, Germany, and a property of the German public cultural organization the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation (). Founded in ...

. Winterfeld was a patron of

August Heinrich Hoffmann von Fallersleben August Heinrich Hoffmann (, calling himself von Fallersleben, after his hometown; 2 April 179819 January 1874) was a German poet. He is best known for writing "", whose third stanza is now the national anthem of Germany, and a number of popular ...

, who dedicated the song collection "Siebengestirn gevatterlicher Wiegen-Lieder für Frau Minna von Winterfeld" to him in gratitude, or to his wife Wilhelmine "Minna" von Winterfeld and their children.August Heinrich Hoffmann von Fallersleben
Gesammelte Werke: Bd. Mein Leben (Bd. 5 und 6) Fortsetzung bis zu des Dichters Tode. Nachträge
(in German) F. Fontane 1893, p. 321

Family

Winterfeld married Wilhelmine von Thümen (20 June 1789 – 1 November 1845). The couple had several children, including * Sigismund, Hoffmann von Fallersleben's godfather * (22 March 1829 – 23 July 1894), married to Pauline von Roeder (5 January 1845 – 15 August 1914)

Publications

* ''Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina''. Breslau 1832. * ''

Giovanni Gabrieli Giovanni Gabrieli (/1557 – 12 August 1612) was an Italian composer and organist. He was one of the most influential musicians of his time, and represents the culmination of the style of the Venetian School (music), Venetian School, at the t ...

und sein Zeitalter''. Berlin 1834 (; ; ). * ''Dr. Martin Luther's deutsche geistliche Lieder''. Leipzig 1840. * ''Der evangelische Kirchengesang und sein Verhältniss zur Kunst des Tonsatzes'' Leipzig 1843–47. ** Part 1: ''Der Evangelische Kirchengesang im ersten Jahrhunderte der Kirchenverbesserung''.

Breitkopf und Härtel Breitkopf may refer to: * Bernhard Christoph Breitkopf, (1695-1777) founder of Breitkopf & Härtel * Johann Gottlob Immanuel Breitkopf, (1719-1794) son of Bernhard Cristoph Breitkopf * Michael Breitkopf, member of German band Die Toten Hosen * Breit ...

, Leipzig 1843 (). ** Part 2: ''Der Evangelische Kirchengesang im siebzehnten Jahrhunderte''. Breitkopf und Härtel, Leipzig 1845 (). ** Part 3: ''Der Evangelische Kirchengesang im achtzehnten Jahrhunderte''. Breitkopf und Härtel, Leipzig 1847
Numerized
. * ''Zur Geschichte heiliger Tonkunst''.''Zur Geschichte heiliger Tonkunst''
on WorldCat Leipzig 1850–52.

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Carl von Winterfeld
bei schlossarchiv.de

on Weber complete work. * {{DEFAULTSORT:Winterfeld, Carl Von 19th-century German musicologists Musicologists from Berlin 1784 births 1852 deaths Writers from Berlin Scholars from the Kingdom of Prussia

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