Horst Leuchtmann

Horst Leuchtmann (born April 26, 1927 in Braunschweig , † April 10, 2007 in Munich ) was a German musicologist .

Life

Leuchtmann was a student of the composer Philippine Schick (1893-1970) and together with her created a German-English dictionary for music [RD Brühs, F. Messmer, R. Reitzer: Philippine Schick, Tutzing 2005]. After receiving his doctorate in 1957, Horst Leuchtmann became a research assistant at the Bavarian Academy of Sciences . 1983–95 he was a lecturer (since 1986 in an honorary professorship) at the University of Music and Theater Munich , 1986–95 teaching assignment at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich .

His research focused on the music of the 16th century and modern times. On behalf of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences, he compiled a list of the compositions by Orlando di Lasso .

Horst Leuchtmann died on April 10, 2007 and was buried on April 27 in the Neukeferloh cemetery.

Fonts

• The musical word interpretations in the motets of the Magnum Opus Musicum by Orlando di Lasso , 1959
• Criticism and contemplation - Collected essays and reviews (with Alexander Berrsche and Hermann Rinn), 2nd revised edition of the comforter music published by Harmann Rinn and Hans Rupe, 1964
• Orlando di Lasso. His life. Attempt to take stock of the biographical details , Wiesbaden 1976
• Dictionary Music: Dictionary of Terms in Music: English-German / German-English , Munich 1977
• Music. People, instruments and events in pictures and documents (with Christian Barth and Holger Fliessbach), Dortmund 1979
• The Munich princely wedding of 1568. Massimo Troiano : Dialogues. Discussions about the festivities at the wedding of the Bavarian Hereditary Duke Wilhelm V with Renata von Lothringen , in Munich, in February 1568. (Facsimile, ed.), Munich and Salzburg 1980, ISBN 3-87397-503-3
• Orlando di Lasso. Renaissance music at the Munich Fürstenhof. Exhibition for the 450th birthday (with Helmut Hell), Wiesbaden 1982
• Carl Orff . A memorial book , Tutzing 1985
• Yehudi Menuhin . Art as hope for humanity. Speeches and writings. With a laudation by Pierre Bertaux , Munich 1986
• Quaestiones in musica. Festschrift for Franz Krautwurst for his 65th birthday (with Friedhelm Brusniak), Tutzing 1989
• 65th Bach Festival of the New Bach Society Leipzig. Munich, November 13-19, 1990. Articles and programs (as ed.), Tutzing 1990
• Orlando di Lasso. Magnificent manuscripts and sources. From the holdings of the Bavarian State Library in Munich (with Hartmut Schaefer), Tutzing 1994
• Orlando di Lasso. Magnificent manuscripts and sources. From the holdings of the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek München - On the 400th anniversary of death on the occasion of the exhibition of the same name in the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek München, from June 1 to July 30, 1994 (with Hartmut Schaefer), Tutzing 1994
• Musik in Bayern , half-yearly publication of the Society for Bavarian Music History eV, issue 53, Tutzing 1997
• Motet and Mass (with Siegfried Mauser ), 1998

Honors, memberships

• 1989 Full member of the Bavarian Academy of Fine Arts
• 1995 Dr. Jürgen Krakow Prize of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences

credentials

• Festschrift for Horst Leuchtmann for his 65th birthday, ed. v. Bernhold Schmid and Stephan Hörner . Tutzing: H. Schneider, 1993
• Kürschner's German Scholars Calendar 2001 , Vol. II, Munich 2001
• Advertisement in the Süddeutsche Zeitung on April 14, 2007
• Bernhold Schmid . Horst Leuchtmann. Obituary // Akademie aktuell, 2007, No. 2, pp. 62–63.