HAUPTMANN, MORITZ. – Theorist and composer, b. in Dresden on 13 October 1792, d. in Leipzig on 3 January 1868. After profound and thorough studies, in 1812 he entered as a violinist in the court chapel in Dresden; he was subsequently in Vienna, Petersburg, and Kassel, and in 1842 settled in Leipzig, where he was organist at the church of St. Thomas and teacher of harmony and counterpoint at the Conservatory.
He wrote secular vocal music, masses, hymns, psalms, and motets, as well as sonatas for violin and organ. He also published numerous theoretical studies, such as Die Natur der Harmonik und Metrik (Leipzig 1853), Die Lehre von der Harmonik (ibid. 1860), Erläuterung zu J. S. Bach Kunst der Fuge (2nd ed., ibid. 1861). He was co-founder and lifelong president of the Bach Society and supervised the printing of the first three volumes of the complete collection of his works.