Erich Valentin

Erich Valentin (27 November 1906 – 16 March 1993 ) was a German musicologist.

Life Born in Strasbourg, Valentin, the son of a postal clerk, studied musicology at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München from 1925 and was awarded a doctorate in 1928 with his dissertation Die Entwicklung der Tokkata im 17. und 18. Jahrhunder. In 1931, he published the first independent Telemann biography on the occasion of the 250th birthday of Georg Philipp Telemann. From 1928 to 1935, he was a teacher at the seminar for music education in Magdeburg and music correspondent for various magazines, then he worked as a critic and music writer in Munich until 1939. In 1935, he proved to be a loyal partisan of the NS-regime, when he wrote in Musikgeschichte als Bildungsfaktor an article titled "Das Bildungsideal des neuen Staates ist wie sein politisches Ziel die Totalität".

According to the Reichsmusikkammer and his name file, Valentin was a member of the National Socialist German Workers' Party, but his name is missing from the central file of the NSDAP.

After the Anschluss, he was appointed teacher at the Mozarteum in Salzburg in 1939, where he became lecturer for musicology and director of the Central Institute for Mozart Research. Valentin was a founding member of the .

From 1963 until his retirement in 1972, Valentin was director of the Munich Academy of Music. In 1965, he became chairman of the "Musikausschusses des Bayerischen Sängerbundes". Since May 1978, he had been retired and lived in Bad Aibling, where he died in 1993 at the age of 86. 1987: Bundesverdienstkreuz I. Klasse 1992: Georg-Philipp-Telemann-Preis der Landeshauptstadt Magdeburg

Publications Handbuch der Musikinstrumentenkunde. Gustav Bosse, Regensburg 1954.