Heinrich W. Schwab

Heinrich Wilhelm Schwab (born May 8, 1938 in Ludwigshafen ) is a German musicologist .

career

Schwab obtained his doctorate in 1964 from the University of Saarbrücken with a thesis on the influences of 18th century music on those in the 19th century. From 1966 he took part in a research project at the University of Kiel that focused on the Scandinavian and Baltic music history. Since 1998 he has been Professor of Musicology at the University of Copenhagen . He has been a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Music and the Norwegian Academy of Sciences since 1998 , of the Royal Danish Academy of Sciences since 1999 and of the Academia Europaea since 2005 . In 2009 he was awarded the Federal Cross of Merit on ribbon.

Schwab is married to the music librarian Ute Schwab, who has been chairwoman or honorary chairwoman of the Weber Society since 1991 .

Singability, popularity and art song. Studies on song and song aesthetics of the middle Goethe period (1770–1814) (= studies on the history of music of the 19th century, vol. 3), Regensburg: Bosse 1965
The revenue book of the Schleswig town musician Friedrich Adolph Berwald (= Kieler Schriften zur Musikwissenschaft, Vol. 21), Kassel: Bärenreiter 1972
The beginnings of secular professional musicians in the medieval city. Study on a professional and social history of town musicians , habil. Script, maschr. Private printing, Kiel 1977, 149 pp. - (printed as :) Kieler Schriften zur Musikwissenschaft, Vol. 24, Kassel: Bärenreiter 1982
Friedrich Ludwig Aemilius Kunzen (1761-1817). Stations of his life and work. [Catalog for the] exhibition on the occasion of the anniversary of the appointment as music director of the Royal Danish Court Orchestra in 1795 (= writings of the Schleswig-Holstein State Library, edited by Dieter Lohmeier, vol. 21), Heide in Holstein: Verlag Boyens & Co. 1995

John Bergsagel: ”Schwab, Heinrich W (ilhelm)”. Grove Music Online. Oxford Music Online.