Matthias Herrmann (born 14 October 1955) is a German musicologist and university professor.
Born in Mildenau, Herrmann became a member of the Dresdner Kreuzchor conducted by Kreuzkantor Rudolf Mauersberger, later Martin Flämig. He then studied musicology at the University of Leipzig and later became a staff member of the music department of the Saxon State Library in Dresden as well as of the cultural editorial staff of the Sächsisches Tageblatt .
He wrote his doctorate about the court-music of the House of Wettin in Dresden around 1500 and was habilitated on compositional work, especially the early work of Rudolf Mauersberger. He worked as a scientific assistant and senior assistant at the Heinrich-Schütz-Archiv in Dresden and was appointed to a professorship for music history at the Institute for Musicology of the Hochschule für Musik Carl Maria von Weber Dresden in 1993.
He has published the series Sächsische Studien zur älteren Musikgeschichte at the Klaus-Jürgen Kamprad publishing house in Altenburg, and the Dresdner Schriften zur Musik and the Schriften des Dresdner Kreuzchores at the Tectum publishing house in Marburg and Baden-Baden.
Herrmann is a member of the editorial board of the Dresdner Hefte and a board member of the Dresdner Geschichtsverein , where he served as chairman until 2016). He was spokesman of the association "Heinrich Schütz in Dresden", and a longstanding member of the cultural advisory board of the state capital Dresden.
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