Andreas Holschneider (6 April 1931 – 24 September 2019) was a German

music historian Music history, sometimes called historical musicology, is a highly diverse subfield of the broader discipline of musicology that studies music from a historical point of view. In theory, "music history" could refer to the study of the history of ...

and writer.

Life

Holschneider was born in 1931 in

Freiburg im Breisgau Freiburg im Breisgau or simply Freiburg is the List of cities in Baden-Württemberg by population, fourth-largest city of the German state of Baden-Württemberg after Stuttgart, Mannheim and Karlsruhe. Its built-up area has a population of abou ...

as the oldest of four sons of the chemist Friedrich Wilhelm Holschneider and Olga Holschneider, ''née'' Krafft. He studied piano with

Edith Picht-Axenfeld Edith Picht-Axenfeld (1 January 1914 in Freiburg im Breisgau – 19 April 2001 in Hinterzarten) was a German pianist and harpsichordist. Career She started her concert career in 1935, and took part two years later in the III International Chopin ...

at the

Hochschule für Musik Freiburg The Hochschule für Musik Freiburg ("University of Music Freiburg or Freiburg Conservatory of Music") is a public music academy subsidized by the State of Baden-Württemberg for academic research and artistic and pedagogical training in music. ...

where he received his concert diploma in 1956, then studied

musicology Musicology is the academic, research-based study of music, as opposed to musical composition or performance. Musicology research combines and intersects with many fields, including psychology, sociology, acoustics, neurology, natural sciences, ...

and

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and was awarded the degree "pianist" (Dr. phil.) in 1960 with a

thesis A thesis (: theses), or dissertation (abbreviated diss.), is a document submitted in support of candidature for an academic degree or professional qualification presenting the author's research and findings.International Standard ISO 7144: D ...

on Handel's ''Messias'' in Mozart's arrangement at the

Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen Eberhard is an old Germanic name meaning the strength or courage of a wild boar. People First name *Eberhard of Friuli (815–866), Duke and key figure in the Carolingian Empire *Eberhard of Béthune (died 1212), Flemish grammarian *Eberhard I, Du ...

. After a one-year research stay in Italy to study sources for the ''

Neue Mozart-Ausgabe The ''Neue Mozart-Ausgabe'' (''NMA''; English: ''New Mozart Edition'') is the second complete works edition of the music of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. A longer and more formal title for the edition is ''Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756–1791): Neue ...

'', he became an assistant at the Musicological Institute of Hamburg University. He got his

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there with a thesis on the earliest

counterpoint In music theory, counterpoint is the relationship of two or more simultaneous musical lines (also called voices) that are harmonically dependent on each other, yet independent in rhythm and melodic contour. The term originates from the Latin ...

music pieces in the Middle Ages. In 1970 he took over the management of the

Archiv Produktion Archiv Produktion is a classical music record label of German origin. It originated in 1948 as a classical label for the Deutsche Grammophon Gesellschaft (DGG), and in 1958 Archiv was established as a subsidiary of DGG, specialising in recordin ...

Deutsche Grammophon Deutsche Grammophon (; DGG) is a German classical music record label that was the precursor of the corporation PolyGram. Headquartered in Berlin Friedrichshain, it is now part of Universal Music Group (UMG) since its merger with the UMG family of ...

. After various stages of his career within Deutsche Grammophon Gesellschaft, he became Managing Director and President of Deutsche Grammophon in 1987. Holschneider lived in

Baden-Baden Baden-Baden () is a spa town in the states of Germany, state of Baden-Württemberg, south-western Germany, at the north-western border of the Black Forest mountain range on the small river Oos (river), Oos, ten kilometres (six miles) east of the ...

until his death there in September 2019 at age 88.

Publications

Articles

* ''Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Neue Ausgabe sämtlicher Werke.'' (Internationale Stiftung Mozarteum, Salzburg, Bärenreiter) Serie X, Werkgruppe 28, volumes 1–4: Bearbeitung von Werken Georg Friedrich Händels "Acis und Galatea", "Messias", "Das Alexander-Fest", "Ode auf St. Cäcilia" daselbst * Bühnenwerke Serie X, volume 13 "L'Oca del Cairo", Addendum and crit. Report.

Books

* ''Die Organa von Winchester. Studien zum ältesten Repertoire polyphoner Musik.'' Olms, Hildesheim 1967, . (Habilitation). * ''Was bedeutet uns Franz Liszt?''. (''Veröffentlichung der Joachim-Jungius-Gesellschaft der Wissenschaften.'' No. 31).

Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht (V&R) is a scholarly publishing house based in Göttingen, Germany. It was founded in 1735 by (1700–1750) in connection with the establishment of the Georg-August-Universität in the same city. After Abraham Vandenh ...

, Göttingen 1977, . * ''Der Tod am Klavier.'' August von Goethe Literaturverlag, Frankfurt 2002, ; 2., revised edition 2017, . * ''Sarah Florimath. Eine Kriminalgeschichte.'' August von Goethe Literaturverlag, Frankfurt 2017, .

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