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German pianist and musicologist
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11 July 1893(Le Sablon, Moselle, Grand Est, France)
Death:
1 November 1980(Mainz, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany)
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Biography
Introduction
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. He was a member of the Historische Kommission für Schlesien. 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
- Oberitalienische Figuralpassionen des 16. Jahrhunderts, Mainz : Schott, 1955 (Choral part). OCLC 2304099