Walter Salmen (20 September 1926 in

Paderborn Paderborn (; Westphalian: ''Patterbuorn'', also ''Paterboärn'') is a city in eastern North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, capital of the Paderborn district. The name of the city derives from the river Pader and ''Born'', an old German term for t ...

– 2 February 2013 in

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 ...

) was 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 ...

and university

lecturer Lecturer is an List of academic ranks, academic rank within many universities, though the meaning of the term varies somewhat from country to country. It generally denotes an academic expert who is hired to teach on a full- or part-time basis. T ...

. Salmen taught from 1958 to 1992 as a professor of musicology at the

Saarland University Saarland University (german: Universität des Saarlandes, ) is a public research university located in Saarbrücken, the capital of the German state of Saarland. It was founded in 1948 in Homburg in co-operation with France and is organized in si ...

and the

University of Kiel Kiel University, officially the Christian-Albrecht University of Kiel, (german: Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel, abbreviated CAU, known informally as Christiana Albertina) is a university in the city of Kiel, Germany. It was founded in ...

. Afterwards, he was for many years the full professor of the Musicological Institute of the

University of Innsbruck The University of Innsbruck (german: Leopold-Franzens-Universität Innsbruck; la, Universitas Leopoldino Franciscea) is a public research university in Innsbruck, the capital of the Austrian federal state of Tyrol, founded on October 15, 1669. ...

. As a guest lecturer, he also worked in Switzerland, Israel and the United States. After retirement, he lived in

Kirchzarten Kirchzarten is a town in the district of Breisgau-Hochschwarzwald in the federal-state of Baden-Württemberg in southwestern Germany. A Zionist agricultural training farm was founded in Kirchzarten in 1919 to prepare young people to become farme ...

near Freiburg im Breisgau, and worked as honorary professor at the

University of Freiburg The University of Freiburg (colloquially german: Uni Freiburg), officially the Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg (german: Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg), is a public university, public research university located in Freiburg im Breisg ...

Publications

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Johann Friedrich Reichardt Johann Friedrich Reichardt (25 November 1752 – 27 June 1814) was a German composer, writer and music critic. Early life Reichardt was born in Königsberg, East Prussia, to lutenist and ''Stadtmusiker'' Johann Reichardt (1720–1780). Johann Fr ...

: Komponist, Schriftsteller, Kapellmeister und Verwaltungsbeamter der Goethezeit''. Zürich and Freiburg 1963 * ''Geschichte der Musik in Westfalen bis 1800.''

Bärenreiter Bärenreiter (Bärenreiter-Verlag) is a German classical music publishing house based in Kassel. The firm was founded by Karl Vötterle (1903–1975) in Augsburg in 1923, and moved to Kassel in 1927, where it still has its headquarters; it also ...

, Kassel 1963 * ''Geschichte der Musik in Westfalen im 19. und 20. Jahrhundert.'' Bärenreiter, Kassel 1967 * ''Zur Geschichte der Bärentreiber und der Tanzbären.'' In Gustaf Hilleström (editor): ''Studia instrumentorum musicae popularis III.'' (Musikhistoriska museets skrifter 5. Festschrift für Ernst Emsheimer.) Musikhistoriska museet, Stockholm 1974, * "Geisslerlieder", in ''The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians'', ed. Stanley Sadie. 20 vol. London, Macmillan Publishers Ltd., 1980. * ''Musikleben im 16. Jahrhundert''. Leipzig 1976 (). * ''Tanz im 17., 18. und 19. Jahrhundert''. Leipzig 1988, 1989. * ''Der Tanzmeister. Geschichte und Profile eines Berufes vom 14. bis zum 19. Jahrhundert.''

Georg Olms Verlag Georg Olms Verlag is a Hildesheim-based book publisher with publications in the field of ''Geisteswissenschaft'' (i.e. the humanities): first publications, ebooks, reprints and microfiche in the fields of archaeology, Arab studies, history, his ...

, Hildesheim 1997 * ''Der Spielmann im Mittelalter''. Innsbrucker Beiträge zur Musikwissenschaft 8, Innsbruck, 1960 * ''Spielfrauen im Mittelalter.'' Georg Olms, Hildesheim 2000 * ''Der Tonkünstler Johann Friedrich Reichardt und Goethe: "... von der musikalischen Seite unser Freund, von der politischen unser Widersacher...". Eine Ausstellung des Goethe-Museums Düsseldorf zum 250. Geburtstag von Johann Friedrich Reichardt (1752–1814).''

Schloss Jägerhof The Schloss Jägerhof, formerly also called ''die Vénerie'' (French for hunting), is located at Jacobistraße 2 in Düsseldorf-Pempelfort, near the city centre. It was built between 1752 and 1763 by order of the Prince-elector Karl Theodor. At ...

, Düsseldorf 2002. * ''"Nu pin ich worden alde...". Begegnungen und Verweigerungen im Leben eines Musikwissenschaftlers.''''"Nu pin ich worden alde...". Begegnungen und Verweigerungen im Leben eines Musikwissenschaftlers''
on WorldCat Georg Olms, Hildesheim 2011

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