Philipp Spitta [SEP] place of birth
Philipp Spitta
Julius August Philipp Spitta (27 December 1841 – 13 April 1894) was a German music historian and musicologist best known for his 1873 biography of Johann Sebastian Bach.
Biography.
He was born in Wechold, near Hoya, and his father, also called Philipp Spitta, was a theologian and wrote the Protestant collection of hymns entitled "Psalter und Harfe". As a child, the younger Spitta learnt the piano, organ, and composition. He studied theology and classical philology at the University of Göttingen
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Further reading.
- U. Schilling: "Philipp Spitta: Leben und Wirken im Spiegel seiner Briefwechsel" (Kassel, 1994) - contains a complete bibliography of Spitta's writings
- H. Riemann: "Philipp Spitta und seine Bach-Biographie" (Berlin, 1900)
- Johannes Brahms: "Briefwechsel" XVI (Berlin, 1920) - contains Brahms-Spitta correspondence
- W. Sandberger: "Das Bach-Bild Philipp Spittas: ein Beiträg zur Geschichte