Helmut Loos


Helmut Loos is a German musicologist and emeritus scholar.

Life

Born in Niederkrüchten, Loos studied music education from 1971 to 1974 and musicology, art history and philosophy from 1974 to 1980 at the University of Bonn. He received his doctorate in 1980 and was a research assistant at the Musicology Department of the University of Bonn from 1981 to 1989. In 1989 he completed his habilitation.
From 1989 to 1993 Loos was director of the Institute for German Music in the East in Bergisch Gladbach. In April 1993 he was appointed to the chair of historical musicology at the Technical University of Chemnitz.
From October 2001 to March 2017 he held a professorship at the.
His research focuses on the music of the 19th and 20th centuries, religious music and the music-cultural relations of Germany with Central and Eastern Europe.

Publications

Zur Klavierübertragung von Werken für und mit Orchester des 19. und 20. Jahrhunderts. Ein Beitrag zur Geschichte des Klavierauszuges, Munich/Salzburg 1983Weihnachten in der Musik. Grundzüge der Geschichte weihnachtlicher Musik Robert Schumann. Werk und Leben Frédéric Chopin, as Robert Schumann and Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy have seen him. Two Warsaw Lectures