Grave of Arnold Schmitz at the Hauptfriedhof Mainz [de]

Arnold Schmitz (11 July 1893 – 1 November 1980) was a German musicologist who was particularly concerned with Beethoven.

Life

Born in Le Sablon [fr], 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 [de].[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

Sheet music

References

  1. ^ Register of Arnold Schmitz archive, Nachlass at University of Mainz
  2. ^ "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.

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