Werner Icking Music Archive - Werner Icking

Werner Icking

The mathematician and computer scientist Werner Icking (25 June 1943–8 February 2001) spent a large part of his career the Gesellschaft für Mathematik und Datenverarbeitung, a national research centre for applied mathematics and computer science in Sankt Augustin Germany. (The GMD was later absorbed into the Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft). He not only played a key role in the development and distribution of MusiXTeX software, he also produced new editions of music by baroque composers, most notably the complete Urtext editions of Bach's works for solo violin and cello. He had played the violin since he was a child and for a time was first violin in the Chamber Orchestra of the Musikschule der Bundesstadt Bonn (City of Bonn Music School). Icking died at the age of 57 in a cycling accident while returning home from work. Several original compositions on the Werner Icking Music Archive are dedicated to his memory. His academic publications included:

• BITS programmer's guide, Issue 15 of Institut für Software Technologie (St. Augustin), 1973
• GMDTEXT: eine Texter-Verpackung Benutzeranleitung (Volume 197 of Arbeitspapiere der Gesellschaft für Mathematik und Datenverarbeitung, GMD, 1986
• "MuTeX, MusicTeX, and MusiXTeX" in Eleanor Selfridge-Field (ed.) Beyond MIDI: The handbook of musical codes, MIT Press, 1997, pp. 222-231. ISBN 0-262-19394-9