Walter Gerstenberg
German musicologist (1904–1988)
Walter Gerstenberg (26 December 1904 in Hildesheim – 26 October 1988 in Tübingen) was a German musicologist and an expert on Johann Sebastian Bach, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Franz Schubert.
Publications
Die Klavierkompositionen Domenico Scarlattis. Schiele, Regensburg 1931; also as (Forschungsarbeiten des Musikwissenschaftlichen Instituts der Universität Leipzig. Volume 2, ZDB-ID 2280273-3). Bosse, Regensburg 1933 (in addition, music supplement in special issue; at the same time: Leipzig, University, thesis, 1931).
as editor with Heinrich Husmann and Harald Heckmann: Bericht über den internationalen musikwissenschaftlichen Kongreß Hamburg 1956. Bärenreiter, Kassel among others 1957, OCLC 923543745.
as editor with Jan LaRue and Wolfgang Rehm: Festschrift Otto Erich Deutsch zum 80. Geburtstag am 5. September 1963.
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