Harald Heckmann

Harald Heckmann (6 December 1924 – 5 November 2023) was a German musicologist who focused on source documentation, particularly supported by electronic data processing, and music iconography. Besides teaching at the Musikhochschule Freiburg, he established in 1954 and led until 1971 the German Archive for the History of Music, and afterwards was chairman of the German Broadcasting Archive. He held leading positions of international organisations such as the International Association of Music Libraries, Archives and Documentation Centres (IAML), Répertoire International des Sources Musicales (RISM), and Répertoire International de Littérature Musicale (RILM).

Biography Born in Dortmund on 6 December 1924, He received his doctorate in 1952 with a dissertation about Wolfgang Caspar Printz and his teaching about rhythm. He was then assistant to Wilibald Gurlitt until 1954. Heckmann contributed to the Handwörterbuch der musikalischen Terminologie (Handbook of musical terminology) of the Academy of Sciences and Literature in Mainz. He taught Protestant church music history and hymnology at the Musikhochschule Freiburg. the Golden Mozart Pin of the International Mozarteum Foundation in 1988 and the Officer's Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany in 2000. Books Wolfgang Caspar Printz (1641–1717) und seine Rhythmuslehre. Dissertation, University of Freiburg 1952

Editions Katalog der Filmsammlung. Deutsches Musikgeschichtliches Archiv, Kassel/Basel, continuously from 1953 to 1972 Documenta Musicologica, series I Druckschriften–Faksimiles, Kassel among others 1953; series II Handschriften–Faksimiles, 1955ff. (from 1961 to 1972 chairman of the respective editorial committees of both series) Das Tenorlied. Mehrstimmige Lieder in deutschen Quellen 1450–1580. Dt. Musikgesch. Arch. Kassel and Staatliches Institut für Musikforschung Preußischer Kulturbesitz Berlin, vol. 1: Drucke, Kassel among others 1979, vol. 2: Handschriften, 1982, vol. 3: Register, 1986 (with Norbert Böker-Heil and Ilse Kindermann)

Musikalische Ikonographie, conference report. Hamburg 1991, Laaber 1994 (with Monika Holl and Hans Joachim Marx)

Music editions W. A. Mozart, Choruses and entre-acts of Thamos, König in Ägypten, K. 345 (336a), Neue Mozart-Ausgabe (NMA) II/6, vol. 1, Kassel among others. 1956, 2/1973; 1958. W. A. Mozart, Music for pantomimes and ballets, NMA II/6, vol. 22, 1963. Christoph Willibald Gluck, La rencontre imprévue (Die Pilger von Mekka); NMA IV, vol. 7, 1964.