Konstanze Musketa

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Konstanze Musketa (born 14 September 1956) is a German

musicologist and head of the Library of the Handel House Foundation [de
].

Life

Born in

Dr. phil. followed with a thesis on Die Duetti und Terzetti da camera von Georg Friedrich Händel.[2]

In 1980 she became a staff member of the Handel House in the library and documentation department. There she is currently head of the Library, Archive and Research Department as well as the study course. She conceived exhibitions for the Handel House and was responsible for the corresponding museum guides. (1998, 2009 and 2012). She also compiled the catalogue Letters from the partial estate of Friedrich Chrysander (2001).

Her main research interests are

Georg Friedrich Händel, Carl Friedrich Christian Fasch and Johann Friedrich Fasch as well as the history of music in Halle. Several musicological publications were produced for the "Internationale Fasch-Gesellschaft",[3] whose president she was from 1995 to 2008. Since 1999 she has been a member of the Georg-Friedrich-Händel-Gesellschaft [de].[4] She is editor of Handel's chamber duets and terzettes in the Hallische Händel-Ausgabe.[5]

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