Andreas Holschneider

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Andreas Holschneider (born April 6, 1931 in Freiburg im Breisgau ; † September 24, 2019 in Baden-Baden ) was a German music historian and writer.

Life

Holschneider was born in 1931 as the eldest of four sons of the chemist Friedrich Wilhelm Holschneider and Olga Holschneider, nee. Krafft, born. He studied piano with Edith Picht-Axenfeld at the Freiburg University of Music , acquired in 1956 the concert diploma, then studied musicology and Romance languages and was in 1960 with a thesis on Handel's Messiah in Mozart's arrangement at the University of Tübingen for Dr. phil. PhD .

After a one-year research stay in Italy to study sources for the New Mozart Edition, he became an assistant at the Musicological Institute at Hamburg University. He completed his habilitation there with a thesis on the earliest contrapuntal pieces of music in the Middle Ages. In 1970 he took over the management of archive production at the Deutsche Grammophon Gesellschaft . After various career stages within the Deutsche Grammophon Gesellschaft, he became Managing Director and President of Deutsche Grammophon in 1987.

He lived in Baden-Baden until his death in September 2019. He was married with a son and a daughter.

Publications

expenditure

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. New edition of all works. (International Mozarteum Foundation, Salzburg, Bärenreiter) Series X, Work Group 28, Volumes 1–4: Adaptation of works by Georg Friedrich Handel "Acis and Galatea", "Messiah", "The Alexander Festival", "Ode to St. Cäcilia" there
  • Stage Works Series X, Volume 13 "L'Oca del Cairo", Addendum and Crit. Report.

Fonts (selection)

  • The Winchester Organa. Studies on the oldest repertoire of polyphonic music. Olms, Hildesheim 1967, DNB 482229039 .
  • What does Franz Liszt mean to us? (= Publication of the Joachim Jungius Society of Sciences. No. 31). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 1977, ISBN 3-525-85557-5 .
  • Death at the piano. Narrative. August von Goethe Literaturverlag, Frankfurt am Main 2002, ISBN 3-8267-5106-X ; 2nd, revised edition 2017, ISBN 978-3-8372-1988-3 .
  • Sarah Florimath. A crime story. August von Goethe Literaturverlag, Frankfurt am Main 2017, ISBN 978-3-8372-1975-3 .

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Obituary notice Andreas Holschneider , FAZ , October 5, 2019, accessed on October 7, 2019
  2. ↑ Mourning for Prof. Dr. Andreas Holschneider. Report on klassikakzente.de, September 30, 2019. Accessed October 1, 2019.
personal data
SURNAME Holschneider, Andreas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German music historian and writer
DATE OF BIRTH April 6, 1931
PLACE OF BIRTH Freiburg in Breisgau
DATE OF DEATH September 24, 2019
Place of death Baden-Baden