Death of the musicologist Christian Martin Schmidt
According to the publisher Breitkopf & Härtel, the musicologist Christian Martin Schmidt, who among other things was the project leader of the Leipzig edition of Mendelssohn's works, has died at the age of 81.
Schmidt completed his doctorate at the FU Berlin in 1970 under Rudolf Stephan and subsequently worked on the Arnold Schönberg Complete Edition. He also obtained an organ diploma from the École normale de musique in Paris. After his habilitation and a professorship in Amsterdam, he held the Chair of Music History at the Technical University of Berlin from 1991 until his retirement as the successor to Carl Dahlhaus. From 1992 he was project manager of the Leipzig edition of Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy's works at the Saxon Academy of Sciences and from 1997 project manager of the Hanns Eisler Complete Edition.
