Helmut Loos (musicologist)

Helmut Loos (*   5. July 1950 in Niederkrüchten in Dusseldorf ) is a German musicologist and emeritus professors .

Life

Loos studied music education from 1971 to 1974 and from 1974 to 1980 musicology , art history and philosophy at the University of Bonn . In 1980 he received his doctorate and from 1981 to 1989 was a research assistant at the musicological seminar at the University of Bonn. In 1989 he received his habilitation .

From 1989 to 1993 Loos was director of the Institute for German Music in the East in Bergisch Gladbach . In April 1993 he became the chair of historical musicology at the Technical University of Chemnitz .

From October 2001 to March 2017 he held a professorship at the Institute for Musicology at the University of Leipzig .

The focus of his research is on the music of the 19th and 20th centuries, sacred music and Germany's musical and cultural relations with Central and Eastern Europe .

Fonts (selection)

• For piano transmission of works for and with orchestras from the 19th and 20th centuries. A contribution to the history of the piano reduction (= writings on music , vol. 25), Munich / Salzburg 1983
• Christmas in music. Basics of the history of Christmas music , Bonn 1991
• Robert Schumann . Werk und Leben , Vienna: Edition Steinbauer, 2010, ISBN 978-3-902494-44-3
• Frédéric Chopin as seen by Robert Schumann and Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy . Two Warsaw Lectures , Leipzig: Schröder, 2011, ISBN 978-3-926196-62-0
• E-music - modern art religion. Beethoven and other gods. Bärenreiter, Kassel 2017, ISBN 978-3-761824-35-1 .

literature

• Helmut Loos:  Loos, Helmut. In: Ludwig Finscher (Hrsg.): The music in past and present . Second edition, personal section, volume 12 (Mercadante - Paix). Bärenreiter / Metzler, Kassel et al. 2004, ISBN 3-7618-1122-5  ( online edition , subscription required for full access)

Web links

• Helmut Loos on the website of the University of Leipzig