Dr. phil. Wolf-Dieter Seiffert, born in 1959 in Frankfurt/Main, Germany, read musicology, modern German literature, and philosophy at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitaet in Munich. On a scholarship from the “Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes”, he did his doctorate in 1990 with a thesis on “Mozart’s early string quartets” (Rudolf Bockholdt).

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That same year, Seiffert started work at G. Henle Publishers as an editor. Parallel to his work at the publisher, he completed a diploma in business studies at the St. Gallen University, KMU-HSG, financed by the Guenter Henle Foundation. Seiffert became managing director of G. Henle Verlag in 2000. Seiffert has edited numerous Urtext editions for G. Henle Publishers, predominantly on Mozart’s works.