Alfred Dörffel [SEP] date of death
Alfred Dörffel
Alfred Dörffel (24 January 1821 – 22 January 1905) was a German pianist, music publisher and librarian.
Career.
Dörffel was born in Waldenburg, Saxony, the son of August Friedrich Dörffel and his wife Christiane Charlotte, née Kröhne. He received his first musical training by the Waldenburg organist Johann Adolf Trube. He later studied in Leipzig with Gottfried Wilhelm Fink, Felix Mendelssohn and Robert Schumann.
Dörffel was editor for Breitkopf & Härtel and Edition Peters. He published a ' (Guide to
below) appear to have been performed indoors. A notable outdoor performance was that of John Eliot Gardiner and the Monteverdi Choir, who performed it outside Iona Abbey to mark the 250th anniversary of Bach’s death. However, this performance was not included in the Bach Cantata Pilgrimage set of recordings.
Publication.
The work was published in 1876 in the first complete edition of Bach's works, the Bach-Gesellschaft Ausgabe. The editor of the volume in question was Alfred Dörffel. It was classed among the cantatas,