Heinz von Loesch (born 20 May 1959) is 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 ...

. He researches and teaches at

Technische Universität Berlin (TU Berlin; also known as Berlin Institute of Technology and Technical University of Berlin, although officially the name should not be translated) is a public university, public research university located in Berlin, Germany. It was the first ...

Life

Born in

Frankfurt Frankfurt am Main () is the most populous city in the States of Germany, German state of Hesse. Its 773,068 inhabitants as of 2022 make it the List of cities in Germany by population, fifth-most populous city in Germany. Located in the forela ...

, Loesch is the son of , the former director of the , and the

SPD The Social Democratic Party of Germany ( , SPD ) is a social democratic political party in Germany. It is one of the major parties of contemporary Germany. Saskia Esken has been the party's leader since the 2019 leadership election together wi ...

politician Grete von Loesch. At first he completed a

cello The violoncello ( , ), commonly abbreviated as cello ( ), is a middle pitched bowed (sometimes pizzicato, plucked and occasionally col legno, hit) string instrument of the violin family. Its four strings are usually intonation (music), tuned i ...

study with

Gerhard Mantel Gerhard Friedrich Mantel (31 December 1930 – 13 June 2012) was a German cellist, University lecturer and writer instrumental-pedagogical and music-psychological publications. Life Born in Karlsruhe, Mantel was the second child of Georg Mantel ...

and

Pierre Fournier Pierre Léon Marie Fournier (24 June 19068 January 1986) was a French cellist who was called the "aristocrat of cellists" on account of his elegant musicianship and majestic sound. Biography Pierre Fournier was born in Paris, the son of a F ...

, which he furthered with the artistic maturity examination in 1983. From 1980 to 1985 he was a member of the

Junge Deutsche Philharmonie The Junge Deutsche Philharmonie (JDPh; ''Young German Philharmonic'') is one of the national youth orchestras of Germany. Unlike the Bundesjugendorchester, which is composed of pre-university students aged 14–19, the Junge Deutsche Philharm ...

. At the same time he studied musicology with

Carl Dahlhaus Carl Dahlhaus (10 June 1928 – 13 March 1989) was a German musicologist who was among the leading postwar musicologists of the mid to late 20th-century. #Selected bibliography, A prolific scholar, he had broad interests though his research foc ...

and

Helga de la Motte-Haber Helga de la Motte-Haber (born 2 October 1938) is a German musicologist focusing on the study of systematic musicology. Life Haber was born in Ludwigshafen am Rhein as the first child of Paula Haber, ''née'' Kilian, and the physicist and mathem ...

until 1991, where he received his doctorate in 1991 and his habilitation in 1999. Afterwards he was a research assistant at the

State Institute for Music Research The State Institute for Music Research ( or ''SIMPK'') is a musicological research facility in Berlin, Germany for the study of Musical Instruments, Music History, Music Theory and Music technology. It is an agency of the Prussian Cultural Herit ...

and then also professor at Technische Universität Berlin.

Publications

* ''Das Cellokonzert von

Beethoven Ludwig van Beethoven (baptised 17 December 177026 March 1827) was a German composer and pianist. He is one of the most revered figures in the history of Western music; his works rank among the most performed of the classical music repertoire ...

bis Ligeti. Ästhetische und kompositionsgeschichtliche Wandlungen einer musikalischen Gattung'', Phil. Diss. Berlin 1991, Frankfurt. 1992. *

Robert Schumann Robert Schumann (; ; 8 June 181029 July 1856) was a German composer, pianist, and music critic of the early Romantic music, Romantic era. He composed in all the main musical genres of the time, writing for solo piano, voice and piano, chamber ...

: ''Konzert für Violoncello und Orchester a-Moll op. 129'', Munich 1998 (Meisterwerke der Musik 64). * ''Der Werkbegriff in der protestantischen

Music theory Music theory is the study of theoretical frameworks for understanding the practices and possibilities of music. ''The Oxford Companion to Music'' describes three interrelated uses of the term "music theory": The first is the "Elements of music, ...

des 16. und 17. Jahrhunderts: Ein Mißverständnis'', Hildesheim etc. 2001 (Studies on the History of

Music Theory Music theory is the study of theoretical frameworks for understanding the practices and possibilities of music. ''The Oxford Companion to Music'' describes three interrelated uses of the term "music theory": The first is the "Elements of music, ...

1). * ''Das Beethoven-Lexikon'', edited by Heinz von Loesch and Claus Raab,''Das Beethoven-Lexikon : mit 615 Stichwörtern, 116 Abbildungen, einigen Notenbeispielen sowie, einem Werkverzeichnis, und einer Chronik''
on WorldCat

Laaber Laaber is a municipality in the district of Regensburg in Bavaria in Germany. It lies on the River Schwarze Laber (note the spelling difference). The now-ruined medieval castle on the hill above the town centre was once the seat of the Lords of ...

2008.

References

External links

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Heinz von Loesch in WorldCat
{{DEFAULTSORT:Loesch, Heinz Von Musicologists from Berlin 20th-century German musicologists 21st-century German musicologists Academic staff of Technische Universität Berlin 1959 births Living people Writers from Frankfurt