Konrad Sasse

Konrad Sasse (3 October 1926 – 22 July 1981) was a German musicologist and Handel scholar.

After completing his Abitur in 1946 at the Fürst-Otto-Gymnasium in Wernigerode in the Harz, he studied musicology among others with Max Schneider and Walther Siegmund-Schultze at the Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg from 1948 to 1954, which he completed with the Staatsexamen and obtained his doctorate with a thesis on Robert Franz (1962).

From 1967 to 1971, he was president of the GDR country group of the International Association of Music Libraries, Archives and Documentation Centres.

He was also a guest lecturer for historical musicology at the Akademie für Staats- und Rechtswissenschaft der DDR [de].

He is the author of numerous relevant publications, including a Handel bibliography[3] and studies on opera.