Arnold Schmitz
Arnold Schmitz (11 July 1893 – 1 November 1980) was a German musicologist who was particularly concerned with Beethoven, as well as a pianist and composer.
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Life
Born in Le Sablon bei Metz, Schmitz habilitated in 1921 and was subsequently professor at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn and the Breslau University. From 1946 he taught at the Mainz University, whose rector he was in 1954/54 and 1960/61. He was a member of the Historische Kommission für Schlesiende.[1] In 1973, the Beethoven House in Bonn appointed him an honorary member for his Beethoven research.
Schmitz died in Mainz at age 87.
Publications
- Books
- Ausgewählte Aufsätze zur geistlichen Musik, Paderborn : Schöningh, 1996;
- Die Bildlichkeit der wortgebundenen Musik Johann Sebastian Bachs, Laaber : Laaber-Verlag, 1980 (Mainz, Schott, 1950);
- Das romantische Beethovenbild, Darmstadt : Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, 1978 (Berlin and Bonn 1927);
- Die Bildlichkeit der wortgebundenen Musik Johann Sebastian Bachs, Laaber : Laaber-Verlag, 1976 (Mainz, Schott, 1950);
- Die Bildlichkeit der wortgebundenen Musik Johann Sebastian Bachs, Mainz : Schott, 1950 ;
- Beethoven und die Gegenwart : Festschrift d. Beethovenhauses Bonn, Ludwig Schiedermair zum 60. Geburtstag, Berlin : Ferd. Dümmlers Verl, 1937;
- Beethoven, Bonn a. Rh.: Buchgemeinde,1927 ;
- Das romantische Beethoven-Bild. Darstellung und Kritik, Berlin 1927
- Unbekannte Skizzen und Entwürfe, Beethoven, Ludwig van, Bonn: Verlag d. Beethovenhauses, 1924
- Beethovens "zwei Prinzipe", Berlin : F. Dümmlers Verlh., 1923.
- Music sheets
- Oberitalienische Figuralpassionen des 16 Jahrhunderts, Mainz : Schott, 1955 (Chor-Part).
Further reading
- Thomas Phleps: Ein stiller, verbissener und zäher Kampf um Stetigkeit – Musikwissenschaft in NS-Deutschland und ihre vergangenheitspolitische Bewältigung, in Isolde v. Foerster et al. (ed.), Musikforschung – Nationalsozialismus – Faschismus, Mainz 2001, pp. 471–488. online on the Website of the Gießen University
- Helmut Loos, Gegen den Strom der Zeit. Der Musikwissenschaftler Arnold Schmitz (1893–1980), Leipzig 2013
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References
- Fifty years of the Historical Commission for Silesia. In Yearbook of the Silesian Friedrich-Wilhelms-University of Breslau, Volume 17, 1972, List of Members p. 415.
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