Alfred Heuß (historian)
Alfred Valentin Heuß or Heuss (27 January 1877 – 9 July 1934) was a German musicologist, music critic and editor of music magazines. Life Born in Chur, after studying music in Stuttgart, Munich and Leipzig, Heuß received his doctorate in 1902 and was editor of the ''Zeitschrift der internationalen Musikgesellschaft'' from 1904 to 1914, and editor-in-chief of the ''Neue Zeitschrift für Musik'' from 1921 to 1929. As a music critic and music writer, Heuß published mainly on early music and on the music of the classical and romantic periods. He contributed the nineteenth volume of ''Denkmäler deutscher Tonkunst'' in editing Adam Krieger's ''Arien'' (1667). Heuß was hostile to contemporary music, which he regarded as "un-German". Oliver Hilmes has described how Heuß developed the ''Zeitschrift für Musik'' during the Weimar Republic into a bulwark against the avant-garde and everything supposedly 'un-German'. The tendency of the journal, which can be seen especially in it ...
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