Carl Georg Vivigens von Winterfeld was a German musicologist. Carl von Winterfeld studied law at the then University of Halle and was appointed as a judge in Breslau in 1816. After his return to Berlin in 1832, he was appointed to the ''Obertribunalrat'' and in 1839 honorary member of the ''Preußische Akademie der Künste''. Winterfeld was a founding member of the Bach Society and since 1835 a member of the ''Gesetzlosen Gesellschaft zu Berlin''. Carl von Winterfeld is regarded as Heinrich Schütz's revivalist.[1] In 1812 he travelled to Italy where he made copies of compositions of the 16th to 18th centuries. The collection is now kept in the ''Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin''. Carl von Winterfeld was a patron of Hoffmann von Fallersleben. In gratitude, Hoffmann von Fallersleben dedicated the song collection "Siebengestirn gevatterlicher Wiegen-Lieder für Frau Minna von Winterfeld" to him and his wife Wilhelmine "Minna" von Winterfeld and their children.
