Bernd Baselt

Who is Bernd Baselt?

Bernd Baselt was a German musicologist noted for his works on the Baroque composer George Frideric Handel. He was born in Halle, Saxony-Anhalt and died in Hanover.

From 1953 to 1955 Baselt studied at the Academy for Music and Theater, and at the Martin Luther University in Halle from 1953 to 1958. He gained professorial rank in music at the university in 1975.

Although writing widely on composers such as Telemann and Handel, Baselt's most notable work was the Händel-Werke-Verzeichnis. The HWV is considered to be the modern-day catalogue of Handel's works, and was published in three volumes between 1978 and 1986.