Thomas Seedorf (born 1960) is a German musicologist and university lecturer.
Born in Bremerhaven, Seedorf studied school music, Germanistics and literature at Leibniz University Hannover.
He then studied musicology and pedagogy as well as singing at the Hochschule für Musik, Theater und Medien Hannover (doctorate: 1988 with a dissertation on the compositional Mozart reception in the early 20th century).
[3] Seedorf researches primarily in the fields of music theory, music of the 20th century, Lied history and analysis, historically informed performance as well as in particular on the theory and history of bel canto.
[4] Together with Michael Fichtenholz [de], he is artistic director of the Händel-Festspiele Karlsruhe as well as the Internationale Händel-Akademie.