Martin Staehelin

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Martin Staehelin (born September 25, 1937 in Basel ) is a Swiss musicologist and university professor .

Life

Martin Staehelin first studied ancient languages, history, school music and flute in Basel. In 1967 he received his doctorate in musicology as a major and the minor subjects in ancient languages.

After completing his habilitation on the composer Heinrich Isaac in Zurich , Staehelin first became director of the Beethoven Archive and Beethoven House in Bonn, before being appointed professor at the University of Göttingen as a professor in 1983 .

Since 1987 he has been a full member of the Philological and Historical Class of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen . There he gave the eulogy for the award of the Lichtenberg Medal to Joshua Rifkin in 2013 . In 1993 he was appointed honorary director of the Johann Sebastian Bach Institute in Göttingen. Since the same year he has been a member of the Academia Europaea London and since 1998 a member of the Advisory Board of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation in Berlin.

Fonts (selection)

Editing
  • The medieval music manuscript W1: Complete reproduction of the 'Notre Dame' manuscript in the Herzog August Library Wolfenbüttel Cod. Guelf. 628 Helmst. Wolfenbüttel Medieval Studies 9. Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 1995, ISBN 3-447-03779-2 .

literature

  • Ulrich Konrad (Hrsg.): Musical sources - sources for music history. Festschrift for Martin Staehelin on his 65th birthday. Göttingen 2002.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Martin Staehelin . Website of the University of Göttingen
  2. ^ Lichtenberg Medal for Joshua Rifkin. ( Memento from August 21, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Stadtradio Göttingen, May 27, 2013, accessed on July 19, 2014.
personal data
SURNAME Staehelin, Martin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss music historian
DATE OF BIRTH September 25, 1937
PLACE OF BIRTH Basel