Verantwortliche

Anselm Hartinger (born in 1971) grew up in Leipzig in a family with a keen interest in music and literature. The music of Johann Sebastian Bach has been a constant in his life, with the motets and organ vespers in Leipzig's St Thomas Church, the yearly Christmas oratorio as well as his own early attempts to play Bach on the piano accompanying him from his youth.

After attending the Thomasschule in Leipzig, he studied musicology as well as mediaeval and modern history, during which time he also worked as a choir director and organist. From 2003 to 2006, he was an associate at the Bach-Archiv Leipzig and contributed to the reconception of the Bachhaus Eisenach.

As an author and editor, Anselm Hartinger has been responsible for numerous articles on the sources and the reception of Bach's works in the 18^th and 19^th century, on the history of music in Leipzig, on the history of performance practice as well as on Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy. Other scholarly work includes co-editing volume VI of the Bach-Dokumente. In 2010, he was conferred a doctorate for his thesis on the performance of Bach's works in the age of Mendelssohn, Schumann and Hauptmann.

From 2006 to 2011, Anselm Hartinger was a member of the research department at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis. Currently, he is an associate at the University of Würzburg in a research project on theatre music in the early modern age.