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According to Wikipedia, Werner Hermann Georg Braun was a German musicologist. Life Born in Sangerhausen, Braun studied musicology at the Martin Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg from 1946 to 1950 with Max Schneider and school music with main instrument piano and Germanistics. In 1950 he passed the Staatsexamen for the teaching profession in the subjects music and German. From 1951 on he worked as and later as senior assistant at the musicological institute of the Martin-Luther-University in Halle. In 1952 he received his doctorate with a dissertation on Johann Mattheson. In 1958, the University of Halle-Wittenberg accepted his habilitation on the Central German Choral Passion in the 18th century. At the end of 1961, Braun left the German Democratic Republic with his wife and children and became a Privatdozent at the Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel, combined with a research position. There he was appointed extraordinary professor in 1967. In 1968 he moved to Saarbrücken as a scientific councilor with a professorial title at the Saarland University. There he became Ordinarius for Musicology in July 1972 as successor to Walter Wiora. After the formal abolition of the chairs by the Saarland University Act in the later 1970s, Braun was given the title of "Professor for life" . He held this office until his emeritus appointment in autumn 1994.

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