Lorenz, Alfred (Ottokar) (1868–1939)

Austrian conductor and writer on music. After various other appointments, he became a conductor at Coburg-Gotha in 1898, but retired, took a degree in 1922, and became a lecturer at Munich University in 1923 and professor in 1926. He edited Richard Wagner's literary works and Carl Maria von Weber's early operas, and wrote several books on the form of Wagner's music dramas, on the history of Western music and on Alessandro Scarlatti's early operas.