Death of the musicologist Max Lütolf
Max Lütolf, professor emeritus of musicology at the University of Zurich, has died at the age of 81, according to an announcement from the University of Zurich. He earned an excellent reputation not least for cataloging and editing medieval sources.
Max Lütolf qualified as a professor at the University of Zurich in 1976. He was appointed associate professor in 1977 and promoted to full professor in 1988. He retired in 2000.
The Institute of Musicology at the University of Zurich outlines his main areas of research as follows: "His wide-ranging academic interests were in liturgical music in the broadest sense, with a particular focus on the Middle Ages. Time and again, he was involved in large-scale edition projects. He compiled the index to the monumental collection of Analecta hymnica and edited a number of medieval manuscripts, among which the edition of the Graduale of St. Cecilia in Trastevere, which remains a reference work to this day, stands out. Time and again, he has also dealt editorially with the music of the Roman Baroque, for example in his edition of Arcangelo Corelli's opera I and III. However, his most important project was and is undoubtedly his monumental, eight-volume edition of the sacred chants of the German Middle Ages, which is nearing completion and which he will no longer be able to see. For many years, he was the responsible editor of Othmar Schoeck's works, as well as coordinator of the Swiss organ inventory."
