Grave of Arnold Schmitz at the Hauptfriedhof Mainz
Arnold Schmitz (11 July 1893 – 1 November 1980) was a German musicologist who was particularly concerned with Beethoven.
Life
Born in Le Sablon, 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 University of Mainz, whose rector he was in 1953/54 and 1960/61.[1] He was a member of the Historische Kommission für Schlesien.[2] 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
- Beethovens "zwei Prinzipe", Berlin: Ferdinand Dümmler, 1923 OCLC 504083375
- Unbekannte Skizzen und Entwürfe, Beethoven, Ludwig van, Bonn: Beethovenhaus, 1924 OCLC 458383998
- Das romantische Beethoven-Bild. Darstellung und Kritik, Berlin: Ferdinand Dümmler, 1927 OCLC 85080144
- Beethoven, Bonn a. Rh.: Buchgemeinde, 1927 OCLC 781303233
- "Zur Frage nach Beethovens Weltanschauung und ihrem muskalischen Ausdruck" in Beethoven und die Gegenwart : Festschrift d. Beethovenhauses Bonn, Ludwig Schiedermair zum 60. Geburtstag (also editor), Berlin : Ferdinand Dümmler, 1937 OCLC 54195276
- Die Bildlichkeit der wortgebundenen Musik Johann Sebastian Bachs, Mainz : Schott, 1950 OCLC 1464895
- Ausgewählte Aufsätze zur geistlichen Musik, Paderborn : Ferdinand Schöningh, 1996 OCLC 36088997
Sheet music
References
- ↑ Register of Arnold Schmitz archive, Nachlass at University of Mainz
- ↑ "Fünfzig Jahre Historische Kommission für Schlesien" [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.
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. ISBN 978-3-924522-06-3
- Helmut Loos, "Gegen den Strom der Zeit. Der Musikwissenschaftler Arnold Schmitz (1893–1980)", in Musikgeschichte in Mittel- und Osteuropa, No. 13, pp. 233–244, Leipzig 2013
- Loos, Helmut (2013). "Arnold Schmitz as Beethoven Scholar: A Reassessment". Journal of Musicological Research. 32 (2–3): 150–162. doi:10.1080/01411896.2013.791804. S2CID 162232175.
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