Harald Heckmann (born 6 December 1924) is a German

musicologist Musicology (from Greek μουσική ''mousikē'' 'music' and -λογια ''-logia'', 'domain of study') is the scholarly analysis and research-based study of music. Musicology departments traditionally belong to the humanities, although some mu ...

Life

Born in

Dortmund Dortmund (; Westphalian nds, Düörpm ; la, Tremonia) is the third-largest city in North Rhine-Westphalia after Cologne and Düsseldorf, and the eighth-largest city of Germany, with a population of 588,250 inhabitants as of 2021. It is the la ...

, Heckmann studied musicology with Reinhold Hammerstein, Hermann Zenck and

Wilibald Gurlitt Wilibald Gurlitt (1 March 1889, Dresden – 15 December 1963, Freiburg) was a German musicologist. Gurlitt, son of the art historian Cornelius Gurlitt, attended the St. Anne Semi-Classical Secondary School (''Annenrealgymnasium'') in Dresd ...

as well as art history with

Kurt Bauch Kurt Bauch (25 November 1897 in Neustadt-Glewe – 1 March 1975 in Freiburg im Breisgau) was a German art historian with particular interest in the art of Rembrandt. The son of a Mecklenburg judge, Bauch studied art history at the University o ...

, history of

German literature German literature () comprises those literature, literary texts written in the German language. This includes literature written in Germany, Austria, the German parts of Switzerland and Belgium, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, South Tyrol in Italy a ...

with Walther Rehm and history with

Gerd Tellenbach Gerd Tellenbach (17 September 1903 – 12 June 1999) was a German historian and scholar of medieval social and religious history, particularly of the Papacy and German church during the Investiture Controversy and reform movements of the eleventh ...

and

Gerhard Ritter Gerhard Georg Bernhard Ritter (6 April 1888, in Bad Sooden-Allendorf – 1 July 1967, in Freiburg) was a nationalist-conservative German historian, who served as a professor of history at the University of Freiburg from 1925 to 1956. He studied u ...

Freiburg im Breisgau Freiburg im Breisgau (; abbreviated as Freiburg i. Br. or Freiburg i. B.; Low Alemannic German, Low Alemannic: ''Friburg im Brisgau''), commonly referred to as Freiburg, is an independent city in Baden-Württemberg, Germany. With a population o ...

. During his studies he became a member of the ''AMV Alt-Strasbourg Freiburg'' (). He received his doctorate in 1952, was assistant to

until 1954, collaborator on the handbook of musical terminology of the

Academy of Sciences and Literature The Academy of Sciences and Literature (german: Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur Mainz, AdW Mainz) is a scientific academy in Mainz, Germany. It was established in 1949 on an initiative of Alfred Döblin. The academy's goal is to su ...

Mainz and taught Protestant

church music Church music is Christian music written for performance in church, or any musical setting of ecclesiastical liturgy, or music set to words expressing propositions of a sacred nature, such as a hymn. History Early Christian music The onl ...

history and

hymnology Hymnology (from Greek ὕμνος ''hymnos'', "song of praise" and -λογία ''-logia'', "study of") is the scholarly study of religious song, or the hymn, in its many aspects, with particular focus on choral and congregational song. It may be m ...

at the

Musikhochschule Freiburg A music school is an educational institution specialized in the study, training, and research of music. Such an institution can also be known as a school of music, music academy, music faculty, college of music, music department (of a larger ins ...

. In 1954 he was entrusted with the establishment of the German Music Historical Archive in Kassel, which he headed until 1971 and which was supervised by the . From 1971 until his retirement in 1991, he was chairman of the

German Broadcasting Archive The German Broadcasting Archive (''Deutsches Rundfunkarchiv''; DRA) is a non-profit foundation supported by the ARD. It was founded in 1952 as "German sound archive". The DRA covers essential aspects of the development of German broadcasting. Today ...

in Frankfurt, a foundation of the ARD.

Voluntary functions

From 1959 to 1974, Heckmann was first Secretary General, then until 1977 President of the

International Association of Music Libraries, Archives and Documentation Centres The International Association of Music Libraries, Archives and Documentation Centres (IAML), also known as ''Association Internationale des Bibliothèques, Archives et Centres de Documentation Musicaux'' (AIBM) and ''Internationale Vereinigung der ...

(international name: Association International des Bibliothèques Musicales, in short: AIBM). After his presidency he was appointed Honorary President of the Association. Between 1960 and 1980, he was also secretary, then until 2004 president of the

Répertoire International des Sources Musicales A repertoire () is a list or set of dramas, operas, musical compositions or roles which a company or person is prepared to perform. Musicians often have a musical repertoire. The first known use of the word ''repertoire'' was in 1847. It is a l ...

. (RISM), where he is now also Honorary President. From 1971 to 2002 Heckmann was a member of the German Music History Commission. In 1971, he was with

Barry S. Brook Barry Shelley Brook (November 1, 1918, New York City – December 7, 1997, New York City) was an American musicologist.''Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Musicians, Ninth edition,'' edited by Laura Kuhn, New York: Schirmer Books (2001) Educatio ...

and

Geneviève Thibault de Chambure Geneviève, comtesse Hubert de Chambure Thibault (20 June 1902, Neuilly-sur-Seine – 31 August 1975, Strasbourg) was a French musicologist associated with the revival of interest in early music. She graduated from the Sorbonne in 1920 with a the ...

, the founder of the Répertoire International d'Iconographie Musicale (RIdIM), where he was vice president until 1989. In 1967 he was also co-founder and until 1992 vice president of the

Répertoire International de Littérature Musicale Répertoire International de Littérature Musicale (International Repertory of Music Literature; Internationales Repertorium der Musikliteratur), commonly known by its acronym RILM, is a nonprofit organization that offers digital collections and a ...

(RILM). Together 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 Mante ...

, from 1983 to 2009 he was responsible for the chamber music programmes of the Robert Schumann Society Frankfurt am Main. Heckmann received the Kassel City Medal in 1979, the Golden Mozart Pin of the International Mozarteum Foundation in 1988 and the

Federal Cross of Merit The Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany (german: Verdienstorden der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, or , BVO) is the only federal decoration of Germany. It is awarded for special achievements in political, economic, cultural, intellect ...

1st Class in 2000.

Publications

;Books * '' Wolfgang Caspar Printz (1641–1717) und seine Rhythmuslehre''. Diss. phil. Freiburg i. Br. 1952 (mschr.) * ''Elektronische

Data processing Data processing is the collection and manipulation of digital data to produce meaningful information. Data processing is a form of ''information processing'', which is the modification (processing) of information in any manner detectable by an ...

in der Musikwissenschaft'', Regensburg 1967. ;Essais: ''Arbeiten zur Musikdokumentation, zur Überlieferungsgeschichte der Musik, zur Musik-Ikonographie, zum Einsatz der EDV in der Musikwissenschaft, zur Aufführungspraxis älterer Musik among others'' ;Editions * Deutsches Musikgeschichtliches Archiv Kassel. Katalog der Filmsammlung, Kassel/Basel, continuously from 1953 to 1972 * Documenta Musicologica, Reihe I Druckschriften–Faksimiles, Kassel among others 1953; series II, Handschriften–Faksimiles ebd. 1955ff. (from 1961 to 1972 Chairman of the respective editorial committees of both series) * Kgr. Ber.

Gesellschaft für Musikforschung The ''Gesellschaft für Musikforschung'' (GfM) is a professional association of musicologists and institutes active in study, research and teaching in Germany. It has over 1600 members. The association is based in Kassel, Hesse. History The soc ...

Hamburg 1956, Kassel/ Basel 1957 (with W. Gerstenberg and H. Husmann) * Catalogus Musicus, Eine musikbibliographische Reihe (1963 bis 1969 Vorsitzender des Publikationsausschusses, from 1979 until 1973 together with H. Heussner) * S. de Brossard: Dict. de musique. Seconde édition 1705, Faks. with Einl., Hilversum 1965 * FS. Vladimir Fédorov, Fontes Artis Musicae 13/1,1966 (with Wolfgang Rehm) * Das Tenorlied, Mehrstimmige Lieder in deutschen Quellen 1450–1580, ed. by Dt. Musikgesch. Arch. Kassel und dem Staatl. Institut für Musikforschung Preuß. Kulturbesitz Berlin, vol. 1: Drucke, Kassel among others 1979, vol. 2: Handschriften., ed. 1982, vol. 3: Register, 1986 (with Norbert Böker-Heil and Ilse Kindermann) * FS. Wolfgang Rehm, Kassel among others 1989 (with Dietrich Berke) * Musikalische Ikonographie, Tagungsber. Hamburg 1991, Laaber 1994 (with Monika Holl and

Hans Joachim Marx Hans Joachim Marx (born 16 December 1935) is a German music historian. He has been professor of European music history at the University of Hamburg. Life Born in Leipzig, Marx first studied music at the Academy of Music in Leipzig. In 1956 he es ...

) * Nachschlagewerke zur Musik. Internationale Musik-Sach-Lexika vom 17. bis zum frühen 19. Jh., Mikfrofiche-Edition, Munich 1999. ;Music editions * W. A. Mozart, Chöre und Zwischenaktmusiken zu Thamos, König in Ägypten, KV 345 (336a), ''

Neue Mozart Ausgabe The ''Neue Mozart-Ausgabe'' (''NMA''; English: ''New Mozart Edition'') is the second complete works edition of the music of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. A longer and more formal title for the edition is ''Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756–1791): Neue A ...

'' (NMA) II/6, vol. 1, Kassel among others. 1956, 2/1973; 1958 * W. A. Mozart, Musik zu Pantomimen und Balletten, NMA II/6, vol. 22, 1963. * Chr. W. Gluck, La Rencontre imprévue/ Die Pilger von Mekka; Sämtl. Werke IV, vol. 7, 1964.

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