Helmut Loos (born 5 July 1950) 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 m ...
and
emeritus scholar.
Life
Born in
Niederkrüchten, Loos studied
music education from 1971 to 1974 and
musicology,
art history
Art history is the study of aesthetic objects and visual expression in historical and stylistic context. Traditionally, the discipline of art history emphasized painting, drawing, sculpture, architecture, ceramics and decorative arts; yet today ...
and philosophy from 1974 to 1980 at the University of Bonn. He received his
doctorate
A doctorate (from Latin ''docere'', "to teach"), doctor's degree (from Latin ''doctor'', "teacher"), or doctoral degree is an academic degree awarded by universities and some other educational institutions, derived from the ancient formalism ''li ...
in 1980 and was a research assistant at the Musicology Department of the University of Bonn from 1981 to 1989. In 1989 he completed his
habilitation.
From 1989 to 1993 Loos was director of the Institute for German Music in the East in
Bergisch Gladbach. In April 1993 he was appointed to the chair of historical musicology at the
Technical University of Chemnitz.
From October 2001 to March 2017 he held a professorship at the .
His research focuses on the music of the 19th and 20th centuries,
religious music
Religious music (also sacred music) is a type of music that is performed or composed for religious use or through religious influence. It may overlap with ritual music, which is music, sacred or not, performed or composed for or as ritual. Relig ...
and the music-cultural relations of Germany with Central and Eastern Europe.
Publications
* ''Zur Klavierübertragung von Werken für und mit Orchester des 19. und 20. Jahrhunderts. Ein Beitrag zur Geschichte des Klavierauszuges'' (''Schriften zur Musik'', vol. 25), Munich/Salzburg 1983
* ''
Weihnachten
Weihnachten is the observance of what is commonly known in English as Christmas Eve in the German-speaking countries such as Germany, Austria and Switzerland. It is also widespread in countries with a German-speaking minority, such as Transylvania ...
in der Musik. Grundzüge der Geschichte weihnachtlicher Musik''
* ''
Robert Schumann. Werk und Leben'' (Vienna: Edition Steinbauer, 2010, )
* ''
Frédéric Chopin, as Robert Schumann and
Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy have seen him. Two Warsaw Lectures'' (Leipzig: Schröder, 2011, )
* ''E-Musik – Kunstreligion der Moderne.
Beethoven
Ludwig van Beethoven (baptised 17 December 177026 March 1827) was a German composer and pianist. Beethoven remains one of the most admired composers in the history of Western music; his works rank amongst the most performed of the classic ...
und andere Götter'' (
Bärenreiter, Kassel 2017, )
Further reading
* Helmut Loos in
Ludwig Finscher
Ludwig Finscher (14 March 193030 June 2020) was a German musicologist. He was a professor of music history at the University of Heidelberg from 1981 to 1995 and editor of the encyclopedia ''Die Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart''. He is respecte ...
, ''The music in history and the present''. (Second edition, personal part, volume 12).
References
External links
Helmut Loos auf der Website der Universität Leipzig
20th-century German musicologists
Leipzig University faculty
1950 births
Living people
People from Viersen (district)
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