Werner Buschnakowski

Werner Buschnakowski (21 January 1910 – 13 November 1995) was a German cantor, organist, harpsichordist and music educator.

Thus there was a Buxtehude cycle with twelve concerts on the occasion of his 300th birthday and a Bach series with all the composer's organ works.

After military service from 1940 and Soviet captivity until 1949, during which he suffered paralysis of the right middle finger, he resumed his organist activities in 1950.

Due to the parish's refusal to adapt the organ of the Versöhnungskirche to the demands of the time, he now devoted himself increasingly to the harpsichord, which led, among other things, to collaboration with the Thomanerchor at motet's and to participation in their travels.

Buschnakowski began his teaching career in 1952 as a lecturer at the Hochschule für Kirchenmusik Dresden, from 1959 to 1961 he taught at the conservatory in Halle and from 1961 to 1971 at the musicological institute of the University of Leipzig.