Christian Martin Schmidt

Christian Martin Schmidt (born November 10, 1942 in Dessau ) is a German musicologist .

Life

From 1963 he studied musicology at the University of Hamburg , as well as in Tübingen , Paris , Göttingen and Berlin . In 1970 he received his doctorate from the Free University of Berlin under Rudolf Stephan .

Schmidt then worked on the Arnold Schönberg Complete Edition . After his habilitation (with an analytical work on Schönberg's Moses and Aron ) and a professorship in Amsterdam, he held the chair of music history at the Technical University of Berlin from 1991 until his retirement as the successor to Carl Dahlhaus .

Since 1992 he has been the project manager of the Leipzig edition of the works of Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy at the Saxon Academy of Sciences .

Another focus of his work, in addition to the history of music in the 19th and 20th centuries, is the work of Johannes Brahms .

Process of motivic-thematic mediation in the music of Johannes Brahms presented in the clarinet sonata in F minor, op. 120/1. Munich 1971 ( Berlin musicological work. 2).
Schönberg's opera "Moses and Aron". Analysis of the diastematic, formal and music-dramatic composition. Mainz 1988.
Johannes Brahms. Stuttgart 1994 ( Reclam music guide ).
with Giselher Schubert , Constantin Floros : Johannes Brahms - the symphonies. Introduction, commentary, analysis. Schott, Mainz 1998, ISBN 3-7957-8711-4 .
Music Analysis: not Universal, not Almighty, but Indispensable. In: Music Analysis. 21, 2002, special edition, pp. 23-27.