Death of the musicologist Manfred Hermann Schmid
The musicologist Manfred Hermann Schmid has died in Augsburg, according to a statement from Bärenreiter publishers. One focus of his work was on the music of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.
Born in Ottobeuren in 1947, the music researcher has been a full professor of musicology at the University of Tübingen since 1986 after several interim positions. Among other things, he completed the critical reports on Mozart's string quintets and the quintets with wind instruments, which his father had published as part of the New Mozart Edition. He made the necessary revisions to these editions for practical individual editions.
Manfred Hermann Schmid's last book was dedicated to Beethoven's string quartets. It was published by Bärenreiter/Metzler a few days after his death.
