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Heinz von Loesch (born 20 May 1959) is a German musicologist. He researches and teaches at Technische Universität Berlin.
Life
Born in Frankfurt, Loesch is the son of Achim von Loesch, the former director of the Bank für Gemeinwirtschaft, and the SPD politician Grete von Loesch.
At first he completed a cello study with Gerhard Mantel and Pierre Fournier, which he furthered with the artistic maturity examination in 1983. From 1980 to 1985 he was a member of the Junge Deutsche Philharmonie. At the same time he studied musicology with Carl Dahlhaus and Helga de la Motte-Haber at Technische Universität Berlin until 1991, where he received his doctorate in 1991 and his habilitation in 1999. Afterwards he was a research assistant at the State Institute for Music Research and then also professor at Technische Universität Berlin.
Publications
Das Cellokonzert von Beethoven bis Ligeti. Ästhetische und kompositionsgeschichtliche Wandlungen einer musikalischen Gattung, Phil. Diss. Berlin 1991, Frankfurt. 1992.
Robert Schumann: Konzert für Violoncello und Orchester a-Moll op. 129, Munich 1998 (Meisterwerke der Musik 64).
Der Werkbegriff in der protestantischen Music theory des 16. und 17. Jahrhunderts: Ein Mißverständnis, Hildesheim etc. 2001 (Studies on the History of Music Theory 1).
Das Beethoven-Lexikon, edited by Heinz von Loesch and Claus Raab, Laaber 2008.
References
External links
Literature by and about Heinz von Loesch in the German National Library catalogue
Heinz von Loesch in WorldCat