Arnold Schmitz

Arnold Schmitz's grave in the main cemetery in Mainz

Arnold Schmitz (born July 11, 1893 in Le Sablon near Metz ; † November 1, 1980 in Mainz ) was a German musicologist who dealt in particular with Beethoven , as well as a pianist and composer .

Life

Schmitz completed his habilitation in 1921 and was then professor at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn and the Schlesische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität zu Breslau . From 1946 he taught at the University of Mainz , where he was rector in 1954/54 and 1960/61. He was a member of the Historical Commission for Silesia . In 1973 the Beethoven-Haus in Bonn made him an honorary member for his Beethoven research .

Fonts

• Beethoven's “two principles”. Their importance for topic and sentence structure , Berlin 1923
• Beethoven. Unknown sketches and drafts. Investigation, transmission, facsimile , Leipzig 1924
• The romantic picture of Beethoven. Presentation and criticism , Berlin 1927
• The imagery of the word-bound music of Johann Sebastian Bach , Mainz 1950

literature

• Thomas Phleps : A quiet, dogged and tenacious struggle for continuity - musicology in Nazi Germany and its past-political coping , in: Isolde v. Foerster et al. (Ed.), Music Research - National Socialism - Fascism , Mainz 2001, pp. 471–488. online on the website of the University of Giessen
• Helmut Loos , Against the Current of Time. The musicologist Arnold Schmitz (1893–1980) , Leipzig 2013

Individual evidence

1. ^ Fifty Years of the Historical Commission for Silesia . In: Yearbook of the Schlesische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität zu Breslau, Volume 17, 1972, list of members p. 415.