Wolf Bergelt
Wolf Bergelt (born 4 October 1951) is a German author, organist and organ scholar. Life. Berglelt was born in Oederan, Erzgebirge. Bergelt received his first organ lessons from Horst Schröter at the Silbermann organ of the town church of Oederan until his church music studies in Dresden. He completed his compulsory military service as a singer in the Erich-Weinert-Ensemble Berlin. He then worked as a music editor while continuing his church music studies in Halle (Saale), where he dealt with music-historical, music-psychological and instrumental issues, among other things. From 1975 to 1980, he worked  as a cantor and organist in Berlin and Prenzlau. It was during this time that he first became involved with the organ heritage of the Mark Brandenburg region, which had hardly been explored until then. Work. Bergelt has been involved since 1979 with the inventory and systematic historiographical development of the "organ landscape of Brandenburg", which he started from Prenzlau as district church musician of the Uckermark. Since then he has published numerous papers on the history of organ building in Prussia and its heartland Brandenburg (su.). As part of this work, he published regularly from 1983 to 1987 in  the traditional "Instrumentenbau-Zeitschrift (IbZ) Musik international". In 1989, his first developmental cross-section "Die Mark Brandenburg – eine wiederentdeckte Orgellandschaft" appeared, which was later published in the work "Orgelreisen durch die Mark Brandenburg" underwent a considerable expansion. In the same year (2005) he launched the reference work "Organ Handbook Brandenburg" and in 2009 the edition "Dokumente der Orgelwelt". In 2012, his opus magnum "Joachim Wagner – Orgelmacher" was published, which is the first comprehensive account of the life and work of the central figure of Prussian organ building and congenial contemporary of Gottfried Silbermann and Arp Schnitger. In this work Bergelt  expanded the life story, the list of works as well as the work histories of Joachim Wagner's organs and thus the overall picture of his life and work with essential new insights. The work was highly regarded in both the national and international organ specialist press and beyond. The continuation series "Wagner-Geist im Orgelbau der Schüler" aims at the extensive presentation of individual work histories from Wagner's circle of students. In the series "Dokumente der Orgelwelt" Bergelt appears mainly as editor, where – as in volume 12 – he contributes comments, but also acts as author. The selection  of topics concentrates on rare, partly rediscovered or also endangered source material of particular cultural-historical importance and scientific relevance. In this respect, the series also represents a form of source maintenance and preservation. In addition to his academic work, Bergelt is also active as an artist, with works including the children's audio book "Die klingende Königin", the aphorism collection "Herzgeist", and the "Toccata à la harmonica", a compositional homage to Parisian street musicians was created.