11 Facts About Ludwig Finscher

Ludwig Finscher was a professor of music history at the University of Heidelberg from 1981 to 1995 and editor of the encyclopedia Die Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart.

Ludwig Finscher is respected internationally as an authority on the history of Western Classical music from the 16th century to contemporary classical music, with a view on music in cultural, social, historical and philosophical context, in a clear language for both specialists and lay readers.

Ludwig Finscher earned a doctorate with a thesis about the masses and motets by Loyset Compere, with advisor Rudolf Gerber.

Ludwig Finscher returned to Gottingen in 1955, working as a freelance journalist and music critic.

Ludwig Finscher became a scientific assistant to Walter Wiora in 1960, first at the University of Kiel and from 1965 at the University of Saarbrucken.

Ludwig Finscher was president of the Gesellschaft fur Musikforschung from 1974 to 1977 and the International Musicological Society from 1977 to 1981.

Ludwig Finscher died in Wolfenbuttel on 30 June 2020 at the age of 90.

Ludwig Finscher was co-editor of the Capellae Apostolicae Sixtinaeque Collectanea Acta Monumenta.

Ludwig Finscher published over 130 articles in anthologies and journals, aiming for simple wording accessible to lay readers as well as specialists.

All of Ludwig Finscher's publications are fundamental for further study and research.

Ludwig Finscher's approach is interdisciplinary and his understanding of music history is therefore different from that of musicologists of the past.