Heinrich Lindlar (6 August 1912 – 23 March 2009) was a German musicologist and music educator.

Life

Lindlar was born in Bergisch Gladbach. After studying music and musicology in Cologne, Bonn and Berlin, Lindlar was awarded the title of Dr. phil. with a work published in 1940 on ''

Hans Pfitzner Hans Erich Pfitzner (5 May 1869 – 22 May 1949) was a German composer, conductor and polemicist who was a self-described anti-modernist. His best known work is the post-Romantic opera ''Palestrina'' (1917), loosely based on the life of the ...

s Klavierlied''. After the Second World War he worked as music critic first for the ''

General-Anzeiger The ''General-Anzeiger'' is a regional daily newspaper based in the city of Bonn, the former West German capital in the federal state of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. The paper was first published in April 1888. In addition to the city and it ...

'' in Bonn, later also for various national daily newspapers and specialist publications. From 1952 he published the series of publications ''Musik der Zeit'', from 1958 the ''Kontrapunkte''. In 1965 he went to the

Hochschule für Musik Freiburg ' (, plural: ') is the generic term in German for institutions of higher education, corresponding to ''universities'' and ''colleges'' in English. The term ''Universität'' (plural: ''Universitäten'') is reserved for institutions with the right to ...

, where he was given the chair for modern music history. In 1969 he moved to Cologne as director of the . There he promoted the expansion of the school to a conservatory of a modern kind until his retirement in 1976. In addition, he taught at the

Hochschule für Musik und Tanz Köln The Cologne University of Music ( is a music college in Cologne, Germany. Founded in 1850, it is Europe's largest academy of music. History The academy was founded by Ferdinand Hiller in 1850 as ''Conservatorium der Musik in Coeln''. In 1895 Ger ...

. Lindlar's often quoted critical examination of

Karlheinz Stockhausen Karlheinz Stockhausen (; 22 August 1928 – 5 December 2007) was a German composer, widely acknowledged by critics as one of the most important but also controversial composers of the 20th-century classical music, 20th and early 21st-century ...

s work prompted him to resign as director of the Cologne Courses for Neue Musik at the Rheinische Musikschule when Lindlar became director of the institute. Among his numerous publications some are considered standard works, such as the ''Wörterbuch der Musik'' published by Suhrkamp or his lexicon on Igor Stravinsky and Béla Bartók.

Publications

* ''Hans Pfitzners Klavierlied''. (Dissertation), Würzburg 1940 * ''Igor Strawinskys sakraler Gesang – Geist und Form der christ-kultischen Kompositionen''. Regensburg 1957 * ''77 Premieren – Ein Opern-Journal. Kritisches und Ketzerisches aus 7 Jahren'', Rodenkirchen/Rh. 1965 * ''Hermann Reutter – Werk und Wirken'' (Festschrift, ed.), Mainz, London etc. 1965 * ''Meyers Handbuch über die Musik''. (Edited and published by.), 4. ed., Mannheim 1971 * ''Lübbes Strawinsky-Lexikon''. Bergisch Gladbach 1982, * ''Lübbes Bartok-Lexikon'', Bergisch Gladbach 1982, * ''Wörterbuch der Musik'', Frankfurt 1989, * ''Leben mit Musik – Aufsätze - Vorträge, Cologne 1960 - 1992'' (Festschrift for the 80th birthday, ed. by Hans Elmar Bach), Köln-Rodenkirchen 1992, * ''Igor Strawinsky – Lebenswege, Bühnenwerke'', Zürich and St. Gallen 1994, * ''Loreley-Report – Heinrich Heine und die Rheinlied-Romantik''.''Loreley-Report – Heinrich Heine und die Rheinlied-Romantik''
on WorldCat Köln-Rheinkassel 1999,

References

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Lindlar, Heinrich 1912 births 2009 deaths People from Bergisch Gladbach 20th-century German musicologists German music critics Academic staff of the Hochschule für Musik Freiburg Academic staff of the Hochschule für Musik und Tanz Köln