Marianne Helms


Marianne Helms, real name Marianne Henze is a German musicologist.

Life

Born in Berlin, Helms studied musicology and medieval and modern history at the Free University of Berlin from 1955, where she received her doctorate in 1964 with a dissertation on the masses of Johannes Ockeghem.
From 1965 to 1967, she was a research assistant at the Musicological Institute there. From autumn 1967 to 1978, she worked as a research assistant at the Johann Sebastian Bach Institute in Göttingen and in 1979 at the Beethoven Archive in Bonn.
From 1980, she was a member of the Joseph Haydn Institute in Cologne. She worked there as a research assistant and archivist, most recently as scientific director. In retirement, she continued to work as an editor on volumes of the Complete Haydn Edition.
She has been married since 1966 to the musicologist and music educator Siegmund Helms. Her dissertation was published under her maiden name.

Publications

Editions

Total scientific expenditure

  • Johann Hermann Schein: Venuskränzlein 1609, Studentenschmaus 1626 , Kassel among others 1970
  • Johann Sebastian Bach: Cantatas for the Feast of Michaelmas', Kassel among others 1973
  • Johann Sebastian Bach: Cantatas for Michaelmas, Kassel among others 1974
  • Johann Sebastian Bach: Cantatas for the Feast of the Epiphany, up to the 2nd Sunday after Epiphany, Kassel among others 1975
  • Johann Sebastian Bach: Cantatas for the Feast of the Epiphany, until the 2nd Sunday after Epiphany, Kassel et al. 1976
  • Johann Sebastian Bach: Lutheran Masses and Individual Mass Movements , Kassel et al. 1978
  • Johann Sebastian Bach: Lutheran Masses and Individual Mass Movements , Kassel et al. 1982
  • Joseph Haydn: Songs for a Singing Voice with Piano Accompaniment, Munich 1983
  • Joseph Haydn: Various Songs with Piano Accompaniment, Munich 1988
  • Joseph Haydn: Stabat Mater 1767 , Munich 1993
  • Joseph Haydn: Masses No. 3-4 and Fragment der Missa Sunt bona mixta malis, Munich 1999
  • Joseph Haydn: Verschiedene kirchenmusikalische Werke, 1. Folge, Munich 2017
  • Joseph Haydn: Verschiedene kirchenmusikalische Werke, 2. Folge, Munich 2018
Practical sheet music
  • Joseph Haydn: Lieder für Singstimme und Klavier, original text, G. Henle Verlag, Munich 1982
  • Joseph Haydn: Arianna a Naxos, Cantata a voce sola, Gesang und Klavier, original text, G. Henle Verlag, Munich 1990
  • Joseph Haydn: Zwei Duette, soprano, tenor and piano, original text, G. Henle Verlag, Munich 1991

    Publications

  • Studien zu den Messenkompositionen Johannes Ockeghems,, Berlin 1968
  • Zur Chronologie der Handschrift des Anonymus 5, Anhang 1 in Johann Sebastian Bach: Neue Ausgabe Sämtlicher Werke, series V, vol. 7: English Suite, Kritischer Bericht by Alfred Dürr.
  • Zur Entstehung des zweiten Teils der 24 Deutschen Lieder, in Internationaler Joseph Haydn Kongress Wien 1982. Bericht, edited by Eva Badura Skoda, Munich 1986,
  • Ein Schwesterwerk der "Nelsonmesse"? Zur Edition von Haydns Te Deum Hob. XXIIIc.2, in Haydn-Studien, IX, 1–4,