Arnold Schmitz
Arnold Schmitz was a German musicologist who was particularly concerned with Beethoven.
Life
Born in, 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. In 1973, the Beethoven House in Bonn appointed him an honorary member for his Beethoven research.Schmitz died in Mainz at age 87.
Publications
BooksBeethovens "zwei Prinzipe", Berlin: Ferdinand Dümmler, 1923 Unbekannte Skizzen und Entwürfe, Beethoven, Ludwig van, Bonn: Beethovenhaus, 1924 Das romantische Beethoven-Bild. Darstellung und Kritik, Berlin: Ferdinand Dümmler, 1927 Beethoven, Bonn a. Rh.: Buchgemeinde, 1927- "Zur Frage nach Beethovens Weltanschauung und ihrem muskalischen Ausdruck" in Beethoven und die Gegenwart : Festschrift d. Beethovenhauses Bonn, Ludwig Schiedermair zum 60. Geburtstag, Berlin : Ferdinand Dümmler, 1937 Die Bildlichkeit der wortgebundenen Musik Johann Sebastian Bachs, Mainz : Schott, 1950 Ausgewählte Aufsätze zur geistlichen Musik, Paderborn : Ferdinand Schöningh, 1996