Dehn, Siegfried (Wilhelm)

SIEGFRIED (WILHELM) DEHNDEHN, (WILHELM) SIEGFRIED(WILHELM) SIEGFRIED DEHN [* 1799-† 1858] Among the nineteenth century's more learned theorists, Siegfried Dehn, who held a professorship at Berlin's Royal Academy of the Arts, was attuned to the music of Lassus and Palestrina and to the fugal writing of Bach and its theoretical interpretation by MARPURG, rather than to the music of his contemporaries and the theoretical constructs they were devising. Among his correspondents was FÉTIS, who…