Harald Heckmann

Harald Heckmann (born 6 December 1924) is a German musicologist.

Life

Born in Dortmund, Heckmann studied musicology with Reinhold Hammerstein, Hermann Zenck and Wilibald Gurlitt as well as art history with Kurt Bauch, history of German literature with Walther Rehm and history with Gerd Tellenbach and Gerhard Ritter in Freiburg im Breisgau. During his studies he became a member of the AMV Alt-Strasbourg Freiburg (Sondershäuser Verband). He received his doctorate in 1952, was assistant to Wilibald Gurlitt until 1954, collaborator on the handbook of musical terminology of the Academy of Sciences and Literature Mainz and taught Protestant church music history and hymnology at the Musikhochschule Freiburg.

In 1954 he was entrusted with the establishment of the German Music Historical Archive in Kassel, which he headed until 1971 and which was supervised by the Musikgeschichtliche Kommission. From 1971 until his retirement in 1991, he was chairman of the German Broadcasting Archive in Frankfurt, a foundation of the ARD.

Honorary positions

From 1959 to 1974, Heckmann was first secretary general, then until 1977 president of the International Association of Music Libraries, Archives and Documentation Centres (IAML). After his presidency he was appointed honorary president of the association. Between 1960 and 1980, he was also secretary, then until 2004 president of the Répertoire International des Sources Musicales (RISM), where he is now also honorary president. From 1971 to 2002 Heckmann was a member of the German Music History Commission. In 1971, he was, with Barry S. Brook and Geneviève Thibault de Chambure, the founder of the Répertoire international d'iconographie musicale at IAML, where he was vice president until 1989. In 1967 he was also co-founder and until 1992 vice president of the Répertoire International de Littérature Musicale (RILM).

Together with Gerhard Mantel, from 1983 to 2009 he was responsible for the chamber music programmes of the Robert Schumann Society Frankfurt am Main. Heckmann received the Kassel City Medal in 1979, the Golden Mozart Pin of the International Mozarteum Foundation in 1988 and the Federal Cross of Merit 1st Class in 2000.

Publications

Books

• Wolfgang Caspar Printz (1641–1717) und seine Rhythmuslehre. Diss. phil. University of Freiburg 1952 Text (65,904 KB)
• Elektronische Datenverarbeitung in der Musikwissenschaft, Regensburg 1967.

Editions

• Deutsches Musikgeschichtliches Archiv Kassel. Katalog der Filmsammlung, Kassel/Basel, continuously from 1953 to 1972
• Documenta Musicologica, Reihe I Druckschriften–Faksimiles, Kassel among others 1953; series II, Handschriften–Faksimiles ebd. 1955ff. (from 1961 to 1972 chairman of the respective editorial committees of both series)
• Kgr. Ber. Gesellschaft für Musikforschung Hamburg 1956, Kassel/Basel 1957 (with W. Gerstenberg and H. Husmann)
• Catalogus Musicus, Eine musikbibliographische Reihe (1963 to 1969 chairman of the publication committee, from 1979 until 1973 together with H. Heussner)
• S. de Brossard: Dict. de musique. 2nd ed. 1705, faksimile with additions, Hilversum 1965
• Festschrift. "Mélanges offerts à Vladimir Féderov à l'occasion de son soixante-cinquième anniversaire", introduction, Fontes Artis Musicae 13/1, 1966 (with Wolfgang Rehm) JSTOR 23504582
• Das Tenorlied, Mehrstimmige Lieder in deutschen Quellen 1450–1580, ed. by Dt. Musikgesch. Arch. Kassel and the Staatliches Institut für Musikforschung Preußischer Kulturbesitz Berlin, vol. 1: Drucke, Kassel among others 1979, vol. 2: Handschriften., ed. 1982, vol. 3: Register, 1986 (with Norbert Böker-Heil and Ilse Kindermann)
• Festschrift. Wolfgang Rehm, Kassel among others 1989 (with Dietrich Berke)
• Musikalische Ikonographie, conference report. Hamburg 1991, Laaber 1994 (with Monika Holl and Hans Joachim Marx)
• Nachschlagewerke zur Musik. Internationale Musik-Sach-Lexika vom 17. bis zum frühen 19. Jh., Mikfrofiche-Edition, Munich 1999.

Music editions

• W. A. Mozart, Chöre und Zwischenaktmusiken zu Thamos, König in Ägypten, KV 345 (336a), Neue Mozart-Ausgabe (NMA) II/6, vol. 1, Kassel among others. 1956, 2/1973; 1958
• W. A. Mozart, Musik zu Pantomimen und Balletten, NMA II/6, vol. 22, 1963.
• Christoph Willibald Gluck, La rencontre imprévue / Die Pilger von Mekka; Complete Works IV, vol. 7, 1964.

Further reading

• Musikdokumentation gestern, heute und morgen, Festschrift Harald Heckmann, ed. by Wolfgang Rehm, Kassel 1984 [with complete index of writings to date]
• Article about Heckmann in Die Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart, 1st and 2nd edition; Grove Dictionary of Music and The New Grove, Kürschners Gelehrtenlexikon.