Walther Siegmund-Schultze (6 July 1916 – 6 March 1993) 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 ...

. He was the elder brother of musicologist

Hella Brock Hella Maria Brock (''née'' Siegmund-Schultze; 3 October 191930 November 2020) was a German music educator, musicologist, and an internationally known Edvard Grieg scholar. Brock was professor of music and English studies at the Leipzig Universi ...

Biography

Siegmund-Schultze was born in

Schweinitz Schweinitz is a village and a former municipality in the Jerichower Land district, in Saxony-Anhalt, Germany Germany,, officially the Federal Republic of Germany, is a country in Central Europe. It is the second most populous coun ...

(Elster). In July 1940 he was promoted to Dr. phil. at the Philosophical Faculty of Universität Breslau with ''Mozarts Vokal- und Instrumentalmusik in ihren motivisch-thematischen Beziehungen'' under Franz Arnold Schmitz. Siegmund-Schultze was co-founder of the Halle Handel Festival in 1952 and in 1955 of the .Prof. em. Dr. sc. Walther Siegmund-Schultze
at magdeburg.de From 1965 to 1970 he was Professor of Musicology in Leipzig.Walther Siegmund-Schultze
University of Leipzig From 1956 to 1981 he was Professor and director of the Institute for Musicology at the

Martin Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg Martin Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg (german: Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg), also referred to as MLU, is a public, research-oriented university in the cities of Halle and Wittenberg and the largest and oldest university i ...

. He died in

Halle (Saale) Halle (Saale), or simply Halle (; from the 15th to the 17th century: ''Hall in Sachsen''; until the beginning of the 20th century: ''Halle an der Saale'' ; from 1965 to 1995: ''Halle/Saale'') is the largest city of the Germany, German States of ...

Awards

* 1959

Handel Prize The Handel Prize (german: Händel-Preis) is an annual award, instituted in 1956, which is presented by the city of Halle, in Germany, in honour of the celebrated Baroque composer George Frideric Handel. It is awarded, "for exceptional artistic, ...

* 1987

Telemann Prize The Telemann Prize is an annual classical music award for special achievements in interpretation, research and cultivation of the life and work of Georg Philipp Telemann. Since 1987, the city of Magdeburg has awarded the prize every year in March ...

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* 1916 births 1993 deaths 20th-century German musicologists {{Germany-musicologist-stub