Carl Georg Vivigens von Winterfeld^[1] (28 January 1784 – 19 February 1852)^[1] was a German lawyer and musicologist. He studied music from the 16th to 18th centuries, and was instrumental in reviving it, especially the music by Heinrich Schütz.

Winterfeld was born in Berlin.^[1] His parents were Karl Friedrich Gotthilf von Winterfeldt (17 May 1757 - 14 September 1824) and his wife Sophie Elisabeth Helene Wilhelmine von Köhler (28 March 1754 – 13 April 1821).^[2]

Winterfeld studied law at the University of Halle from 1803,^[1] and was appointed as a judge in Breslau in 1816.^[2] After his return to Berlin in 1832, he was appointed Obertribunalrat, and in 1839 became an honorary member of the Prussian Academy of Arts.^[1] Winterfeld was a founding member of the Bach-Gesellschaft^[1] and since 1835 a member of the Gesetzlose Gesellschaft zu Berlin.

Winterfeld is credited with the rediscovery of Heinrich Schütz, publishing works by Schütz in his work about Gabrieli in 1834.^[3][4] In 1812, he undertook a journey to Italy, where he made copies of compositions from the 16th to 18th centuries.^[2] He found more music from the period in Breslau.^[2] His collection is kept in the Berlin State Library. Winterfeld was a patron of August Heinrich Hoffmann von Fallersleben, who dedicated the song collection "Siebengestirn gevatterlicher Wiegen-Lieder für Frau Minna von Winterfeld" to him in gratitude, or to his wife Wilhelmine "Minna" von Winterfeld and their children.^[5]

Winterfeld married Wilhelmine von Thümen (20 June 1789 – 1 November 1845). The couple had several children, including^[5]

• Sigismund, Hoffmann von Fallersleben's godfather
• Rudolf [de] (22 March 1829 – 23 July 1894), married to Pauline von Roeder (5 January 1845 – 15 August 1914)

• Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina. Breslau 1832.
• Giovanni Gabrieli und sein Zeitalter. Berlin 1834 (Part 1 is available for free viewing and download at the Internet Archive; Part 2 is available for free viewing and download at the Internet Archive; Teil 3 (Notenanhang) is available for free viewing and download at the Internet Archive).
• Dr. Martin Luther's deutsche geistliche Lieder.^[6] Leipzig 1840.
• Der evangelische Kirchengesang und sein Verhältniss zur Kunst des Tonsatzes^[2][7] Leipzig 1843–47.
  • Part 1: Der Evangelische Kirchengesang im ersten Jahrhunderte der Kirchenverbesserung. Breitkopf und Härtel, Leipzig 1843 (Numerized at Google Books).
  • Part 2: Der Evangelische Kirchengesang im siebzehnten Jahrhunderte. Breitkopf und Härtel, Leipzig 1845 (Numerized at Google Books).
  • Part 3: Der Evangelische Kirchengesang im achtzehnten Jahrhunderte. Breitkopf und Härtel, Leipzig 1847 (Numerized).
• Zur Geschichte heiliger Tonkunst.^[8] Leipzig 1850–52.

• Bernhard Stockmann: Winterfeld, Carl Georg Vivigens von. In Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians. 2nd edition, published by Stanley Sadie, Macmillan, London 2001, ISBN 0-333-60800-3.
• Ruth Engelhardt. "Carl von Winterfeld". Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL) (in German). cols. 1408–1412.
• Gothaisches genealogisches Taschenbuch der adeligen Häuser. 1904, Fünfter Jahrgang, p. 920 (Numerized).

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