Wessely, Othmar#
b. Linz (Upper Austria), Oct. 31, 1922, d. Vienna, April 20, 1998, musicologist. Professor at the University of Graz from 1963 to 1971; at the University of Vienna from 1972 to 1993. Editor of the publications "Denkmaeler der Tonkunst in Oesterreich" from 1974; from 1982-1998 chairman of the Commission of Musical Studies at the Austrian Academy for Sciences and academic head of the A.-Bruckner Institute in Linz.
Publications#
Musik in Oberoesterreich, 1951; Die Musikinstrumenten-Smlg. des Oberoesterreichischen Landesmuseums, 1952; Johannes Brassicanus, 1954; Arnold von Bruck, 1961; Musik, 1973; Bruckner-Studien, 1975; Die aelteren Libretti der Bibliothek des Instituts fuer Musikwissenschaft der Universitaet Wien, 1998. - Numerous essays on A. Bruckner and other Upper Austrian musicians.