Martin Staehelin

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Martin Staehelin (born 25 September 1937) is a Swiss musicologist and university lecturer.

Life[edit]

Born in Basel,[1] Staehelin first studied ancient languages, history, school music and flute. In 1967, he received his doctorate in musicology and ancient languages as minor subjects.

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

Since 1987, he has been a full member of the philological-historical class of the Göttingen Academy of Sciences and Humanities. In 2013, he gave the laudation for the award of the Lichtenberg Medal to Joshua Rifkin.[2] In 1993, he was appointed honorary director of the Johann Sebastian Bach Institute in Göttingen. Since that same year, he has been a member of the Academia Europaea in London and a member of the advisory board of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation in Berlin since 1998.

Publications[edit]

  • Die mittelalterliche Musik-Handschrift W1: Vollständige Reproduktion des ‘Notre Dame’-Manuskripts der Herzog August Bibliothek Wolfenbüttel Cod. Guelf. 628 Helmst.[3] Wolfenbütteler Mittelalter-Studien 9. Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 1995, ISBN 3-447-03779-2.
  • Ein unbekannter Brief von Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff an Felix Staehelin über die 'Geschichte der kleinasiatischen Galater'. In: Klio. volume 76 (1994), pp. 454–467
  • Musikwissenschaft und Musikpflege an der Georg-August-Universität Göttingen: Beiträge zu ihrer Geschichte. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1987. ISBN 3-525-35832-6. 200 pages.
  • "Pierre de La Rue," in The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, ed. Stanley Sadie. 20 vol. London, Macmillan Publishers Ltd., 1980. ISBN 1-56159-174-2
  • Die Messen Heinrich Isaacs: Quellenstudien zu Heinrich Isaac und seinem Messen-Oeuvre. 3 vols, Publikationen der Schweizerischen Musikforschenden Gesellschaft. Bern - Stuttgart: Haupt, 1977.

References[edit]

  1. ^ Martin Staehelin. Website of the University of Göttingen
  2. ^ "Lichtenberg Medal for Joshua Rifkin.". Archived from the original on 2016-08-21. Retrieved 2019-12-08. Stadtradio Göttingen, 27 May 2013, accessdate=8 December 2019.
  3. ^ Die mittelalterliche Musik-Handschrift W1: Vollständige Reproduktion des ‘Notre Dame’-Manuskripts der Herzog August Bibliothek Wolfenbüttel Cod. Guelf. 628 Helmst on Google Books

Further reading[edit]

  • Ulrich Konrad (edit.): Musikalische Quellen – Quellen zur Musikgeschichte.[1] Studies in honour of Staehelin on his 65th birthday. Göttingen 2002.

External links[edit]

  1. ^ Musikalische Quellen – Quellen zur Musikgeschichte on Google Books
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