Hans Schmidt (musicologist)

Hans Schmidt (born September 1, 1930 in Bonn ; † February 2, 2019 in Koblenz-Ehrenbreitstein ) was a German musicologist .

Life

Hans Schmidt was a professor of musicology at the University of Cologne and a long-time Beethoven researcher like his father Joseph Schmidt-Görg , who ran the Beethoven House in Bonn from 1945 to 1972. Hans Schmidt received his doctorate in 1954 at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn on the subject of investigations into the tract of the second tone from Codex St. Gallen 359 .

Publications about Ludwig van Beethoven

Fonts (selection)

• Ludwig van Beethoven , Beethoven Archive, Bonn 1970 (together with Joseph Schmidt-Görg)
• The Beethoven manuscripts of the Beethoven House in Bonn , Beethoven Archive, Bonn 1971
• The Beethoven House in Bonn , Society for Book Printing, Neuss 1977
• Musik-Institut Koblenz - Documentation , Koblenz 1983

Expenses (selection)

Beethoven House, Bonngasse 20

Ludwig van Beethoven, G. Henle Verlag

• Piano Sonatas , Volume I , Complete Scientific Edition, Section VII, Volume 2, Munich 1971
• Piano Sonatas, Volume II , Scientific Complete Edition, Section VII, Volume 3, Munich 1971
• Works for piano four hands , Complete Scientific Edition, Division VII, Volume 1, Munich 1966
• Large fugue for piano four hands op.134 , Munich 1966

Articles (selection)

• The current sources of Beethoven's choral fantasy , in: Colloquium amicorum, Joseph Schmidt-Görg for his 70th birthday, Bonn 1967
• The Beethoven Archive in Bonn, in: Bonner Universitätsblätter, Bonn 1968
• List of Beethoven's sketches , in: Beethoven-Jahrbuch VI, Bonn 1969
• A Beethoven autograph? About three string parts for Beethoven's Choral Fantasy op.80, which were probably not written by Beethoven , in: Die Musikforschung 22, 1969
• Ludwig van Beethoven and his relationships with Ehrenbreitstein , in: Beethoven's relationships with Koblenz and Ehrenbreitstein , Koblenz 1970
• Beethoven 1970 - On the basics of today's Beethoven picture , typescript, Bonn 1970
• On the establishment of a Beethoven memorial in Ehrenbreitstein on the occasion of Beethoven's 200th birthday, in: Bonner Universitätsblätter, Bonn 1970
• A retrieved Fidelio libretto , in: Report on the International Musicological Congress Bonn 1970, Bärenreiter-Verlag , Kassel 1971
• The Beethoven manuscripts of the Beethoven House in Bonn , in: Beethoven-Jahrbuch VII, Bonn 1971
• The free artist Ludwig van Beethoven , in: The world of the symphony , on the occasion of the 75th anniversary of the Deutsche Grammophon Gesellschaft, Hamburg / Braunschweig 1972
• The basics of today's Beethoven picture , in: Österreichische Musikzeitschrift 28, 1973
• On the exhibition of the Wegeler Collection in Koblenz - June 2, 1973 , in: Mitteilungen der Arbeitsgemeinschaft für Rheinische Musikgeschichte, 1973
• From the workshop of a manuscript forger - a love letter from Beethoven , in: Österreichische Musikzeitschrift 29, 1974
• Addenda and Corrigenda to the catalog Die Beethovenhandschriften des Beethovenhauses in Bonn , in: Beethoven-Jahrbuch 8, Bonn 1975
• Beethoven's piano sonatas in E major op.109 and A flat major op.110, in: Text supplement to a record by Maurizio Pollini , Deutsche Grammophon, Hamburg 1975
• Piano variations , in: text supplement to a record by Rudolf Buchbinder , Teldec , Hamburg 1976
• The Beethoven Archive in Bonn - on the 50th anniversary of its existence , in: Beethoven-Jahrbuch 9, 1977
• Ludwig van Beethoven - a documentation in pictures and manuscripts , in: Supplements of the Beethoven edition of the Deutsche Grammophon-Gesellschaft, Polydor , Hamburg 1977
• Beethoven and the German language , in: Österreichische Musikzeitschrift 32, 1977
• Beethoven and the Rhineland , in: Bonner Geschichtsblätter 30, 1978
• Edition and performance practice using the example of Beethoven's Waldstein Sonata , in: Beethoven-Kolloquium 1977; Documentation and performance practice, Bärenreiter-Verlag , Kassel 1978
• New hypotheses about Beethoven's "immortal beloved" , in: Österreichische Musikzeitschrift 35, 1980 (together with Rudolf Klein)
• Beethoven's piano variations , in: Text supplement to a record by Rudolf Buchbinder, Warner Music Group 1988
• Beethoven's special way of writing letters , in: Florilegium musicologicum - Hellmut Federhofer on his 75th birthday, Schneider, Tutzing 1988
• “We like to have lighter passages in our finals ...” - Beethoven in his piano concertos , in: Contributions to the history of the concert - Festschrift Siegfried Kross for his 60th birthday, Schröder, Bonn 1990
• Ludwig van Beethoven in his letters to Eleonore von Breuning and Franz Gerhard Wegeler , in: CD box, music by Ludwig van Beethoven. Letter texts read by Will Quadflieg . Comments read by Heidi Leupolt . Overall concept in texts, images and music overlays by Hans Schmidt, Polymedia / Deutsche Grammophon, Hamburg 1994
• Fidelio - Variations of an Opera , in: Supplement to CD-Box Complete Beethoven edition , Deutsche Grammophon, Hamburg 1997
• Fidelio - Beethoven's problematic work or key work? , in: Festschrift Christoph-Hellmut Mahling on the occasion of his 65th birthday, Schneider, Tutzing 1997
• On Italian with Ludwig van Beethoven - on the use of the Italian language in Beethoven's compositions and letters, influenced by Mozart's Italian compositions, Salieri's lessons and the encounter with Rossini , in: Aspetti musicali - Musikhistorische Dimionen Italiens 1600 to 2000, Festschrift for Dietrich Kämper zum 65th birthday, Verlag Dohr , Cologne 2001
• Systemik bei Beethoven , in: Perspectives and methods of a systemic musicology, report on the colloquium in the musicological institute of the University of Cologne 1998, Peter Lang, Frankfurt am Main 2003

Festschrift for the 65th birthday

• Church music in the past and present , Festschrift Hans Schmidt for his 65th birthday, ed. by Heribert Klein and Klaus Wolfgang Niemöller , Verlag Dohr, Cologne 1998

Web links

• Literature by and about Hans Schmidt in the catalog of the German National Library
• Writings in the Beethoven House in Bonn

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Hans Schmidt, obituary notice. In: general-anzeiger-bonn.de. Retrieved February 11, 2019 . 
2. ↑ Professor of Musicology in Cologne ( Memento of the original from March 23, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
3. ^ Reference in the catalog of the German National Library
4. ^ Ludwig van Beethoven, Piano Works
5. ^ Festschrift for the 65th birthday