Christoph-Hellmut Mahling (25 May 1932 – 13 February 2012) was a German

musicologist 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, f ...

and lecturer at various universities.

Life and career

Born in Berlin, Mahling 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, ...

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, Georg Reichert,

Joseph Müller-Blattau Joseph Maria Müller-Blattau (21 May 1895 – 21 October 1976) was a German musicologist and National Socialist cultural official. He is regarded as a "nestor of Saarbrücken musicology" but also as a "singer of a musical seizure of power"Wolfgan ...

, and Walter Salmen at the

University of Tübingen The University of Tübingen, officially the Eberhard Karl University of Tübingen (; ), is a public research university located in the city of Tübingen, Baden-Württemberg, Germany. The University of Tübingen is one of eleven German Excellenc ...

and the

Saarland University Saarland University (, ) is a public research university located in Saarbrücken, the capital of the German state of Saarland. It was founded in 1948 in Homburg in co-operation with France and is organized in six faculties that cover all major ...

(

Saarbrücken Saarbrücken (; Rhenish Franconian: ''Sabrigge'' ; ; ; ; ) is the capital and largest List of cities and towns in Germany, city of the state of Saarland, Germany. Saarbrücken has 181,959 inhabitants and is Saarland's administrative, commerci ...

) from 1957 to 1962. In 1962 he obtained his doctorate of phil. (Dissertation: ''Studien zur Geschichte des Opernchors'') and became assistant at the Musicological Institute of the Saarland University in 1963. In 1972, he won his

habilitation Habilitation is the highest university degree, or the procedure by which it is achieved, in Germany, France, Italy, Poland and some other European and non-English-speaking countries. The candidate fulfills a university's set criteria of excelle ...

there with

Walter Wiora Walter Wiora (30 December 1906 – 8 February 1997) was a German musicologist and music historian. Life and career Born in Kattowitz, Wiora received his doctorate in Freiburg with Wilibald Gurlitt and then worked as an assistant at the Deutsches ...

for the subject Musicology (Habil.-Schrift: ''Orchester und Orchester-Musiker in Deutschland von 1700 bis 1850''). In the same year he was appointed Scientific Councilor and Professor. Since 1981 he had a professorship at the

Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz The Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz () is a public research university in Mainz, Rhineland Palatinate, Germany. It has been named after the printer Johannes Gutenberg since 1946. it had approximately 32,000 students enrolled in around 100 a ...

; until March 2000 he was director of the musicological institute there. From 1987 to 1992 Mahling was president of the

International Musicological Society The International Musicological Society (IMS) is a membership-based organisation for musicology at the international level, with headquarters in Basel, Switzerland. It seeks the advancement of musicological research through international coopera ...

. Mahling also acted as one of the leading pioneers of a complete edition of the letters of

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, which have been published by since 2013 in

Göttingen Göttingen (, ; ; ) is a college town, university city in Lower Saxony, central Germany, the Capital (political), capital of Göttingen (district), the eponymous district. The River Leine runs through it. According to the 2022 German census, t ...

. Mahling died in

Mainz Mainz (; #Names and etymology, see below) is the capital and largest city of the German state of Rhineland-Palatinate, and with around 223,000 inhabitants, it is List of cities in Germany by population, Germany's 35th-largest city. It lies in ...

at age 79.

Selected publications

Richard Wagner Wilhelm Richard Wagner ( ; ; 22 May 181313 February 1883) was a German composer, theatre director, essayist, and conductor who is chiefly known for his operas (or, as some of his mature works were later known, "music dramas"). Unlike most o ...

und seine "Lehrmeister" : Bericht der Tagung am Musikwissenschaftlichen Institut der Johannes-Gutenberg-Universität Mainz, 6./7. June 1997;

Egon Voss Egon Voss (born 7 November 1938) is a German musicologist, who is particularly known for his contributions to Richard Wagner research. Life and career Born in Magdeburg, Voss studied musicology and German studies at the Universities in Detmold, ...

zum 60. Geburtstag / edited by Christoph-Hellmut Mahling �� Mainz: Are-Musik-Verl., 1999 * Zur Harmoniemusik und ihrer Geschichte / Villa Musica. Hrsg. von Christoph-Hellmut Mahling, Kristina Pfarr, Karl Böhmer. Colloquium.

Villa Musica Villa Musica is a foundation of the German state Rhineland-Palatinate and the broadcaster Südwestrundfunk. Its goals are to support young performers of classical music and to run concerts. It is based in Mainz at the . A second institute of the f ...

; 2 (Schloß Engers, Neuwied): 1998.10.30-31. Mainz: Villa Musica, c 1999 * Musiktheater im Spannungsfeld zwischen Tradition und Experiment (1960 bis 1980) / edited by Christoph-Hellmut Mahling and Kristina Pfarr. Tutzing: Schneider, 2002 * Aspekte historischer und systematischer Musikforschung: zur Symphonie im 19. Jahrhundert, zu Fragen der Musiktheorie, der Wahrnehmung von Musik und anderes ; ahrestagung der Gesellschaft für Musikforschung, ... 1997 an der Johannes-Gutenberg-Universität Mainz ...] / editors Christoph-Hellmut Mahling and Kristina Pfarr. Mainz: Are-Ed., 2002 * Kammermusik an Rhein und Main: Beiträge zur Geschichte des Streichquartetts; Christoph-Hellmut Mahling zum 75. Geburtstag / edited by Kristina Pfarr. Unter Mitwirkung des Jubilars. Mainz: Villa Musica Rheinland-Pfalz, 2007 * Kammermusik im Übergang vom Barock zur Klassik / edited by Christoph-Hellmut Mahling. Mainz: Villa Musica, 2009 * Kurmusik in Kreuznach und Münster am Stein im 19. und frühen 20. Jahrhundert / Heinz Koch. Posthum herausgegeben von Wolfgang Birtel und Christoph-Hellmut Mahling. Bad Kreuznach: Kreisverwaltung, 2009 * Musiker auf Reisen: Beiträge zum Kulturtransfer im 18. und 19. Jahrhundert / im Auftrag der Deutschen Mozartstadt Augsburg published by Christoph-Hellmut Mahling. - Augsburg: Wißner, 2011

''Festschriften''

Axel Beer Axel Beer (born 17 February 1956) is a German musicologist. He has been teaching at the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz since 1995. Born in Fulda, Beer studied musicology, Latin philology and auxiliary sciences of history at the Johann-Wolfga ...

Wolfgang Ruf Wolfgang Ruf (born 29 August 1941) is a German musicologist and emeritus professor. Life Born in Radolfzell, Ruf studied musicology and history at the University of Freiburg, and obtained his doctorate in 1974. Until 1985 he was a research assis ...

and Kristina Pfarr (editors): ''

Festschrift In academia, a ''Festschrift'' (; plural, ''Festschriften'' ) is a book honoring a respected person, especially an academic, and presented during their lifetime. It generally takes the form of an edited volume, containing contributions from the h ...

Christoph-Hellmut Mahling zum 65. Geburtstag''. (''Mainzer Studien zur Musikwissenschaft'', 37) 2nd volume –

Tutzing Tutzing is a Municipalities of Germany, municipality in the district of Starnberg (district), Starnberg in Bavaria, Germany, on the west bank of the Starnberger See. Just 40 km south-west of Munich and with good views of the Alps, the town wa ...

: Hans Schneider 1997. ith pictures and note examplesXXIII, 1618 p. 8° * Wolfgang Birtel (Author), Ursula Kramer (editors): ''Chöre und Chorisches Singen: Festschrift für Christoph-Hellmut Mahling zum 75. Geburtstag'' (''Schriften zur Musikwissenschaft'', 16) Mainz: Are Musik, 2009.Recordings
on MLSP

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