Arnold Schmitz

Arnold Schmitz (11 July 1893 – 1 November 1980) was a German musicologist who was particularly concerned with Beethoven.

Life Born in , Metz, Schmitz habilitated in 1921 and was subsequently professor at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn and the Breslau University. From 1946 he taught at the University of Mainz, whose rector he was in 1953/54 and 1960/61. He was a member of the . In 1973, the Beethoven House in Bonn appointed him an honorary member for his Beethoven research.

Schmitz died in Mainz at age 87.

Publications Books Beethovens "zwei Prinzipe", Berlin: Ferdinand Dümmler, 1923 Unbekannte Skizzen und Entwürfe, Beethoven, Ludwig van, Bonn: Beethovenhaus, 1924 Das romantische Beethoven-Bild. Darstellung und Kritik, Berlin: Ferdinand Dümmler, 1927 Beethoven, Bonn a. Rh.: Buchgemeinde, 1927 "Zur Frage nach Beethovens Weltanschauung und ihrem muskalischen Ausdruck" in Beethoven und die Gegenwart : Festschrift d. Beethovenhauses Bonn, Ludwig Schiedermair zum 60. Geburtstag (also editor), Berlin : Ferdinand Dümmler, 1937 Die Bildlichkeit der wortgebundenen Musik Johann Sebastian Bachs, Mainz : Schott, 1950 Ausgewählte Aufsätze zur geistlichen Musik, Paderborn : Ferdinand Schöningh, 1996

Sheet music Oberitalienische Figuralpassionen des 16. Jahrhunderts, Mainz : Schott, 1955 (Choral part).