is now on display at the Ausbildungskorps der Bundeswehr in Hilden. Awards Kirchmeyer has received the following medals and awards: Richard-Wagner-Medal, 1975 Germany's Federal Cross of Merit, 1985 Knight of the Papal Ordo Sancti Gregorii Magni, 1995 Germany's Federal Officer's Cross of Merit, 1998 German Federal Armed Forces Cross of Merit in Gold, 2006 In 1992 Kirchmeyer was appointed Corresponding Member of the Saxonian Academy of Sciences in Leipzig, Germany. Methods Kirchmeyer's studies are strongly influenced by bibliographical, legal and philological approaches, and by the thoughts of music ethnographer , Kant and Jaspers. For the first time in German musicology, Kirchmeyer used newspapers and journals as sources for establishing what he calls "", a mosaic picture of the past by combining contemporary evaluations of minute events with almost criminological assessment of their relative reliability. The thus established historical picture enables understanding of musical history as a sequence of minute historical-cultural situations and protects historical events as well as pieces of art from distorting (polemic or apologetic) approaches. Kirchmeyer's books on Stravinsky (1958) and Wagner (1972) were highly successful. In the former he connected monographical and biographical elements to form a new type of "ergography", which in 2002 he systematically followed up in his bibliography of the works of Stravinsky. Since its publication, Kirchmeyer has been working on his documentary on Wagner criticism again and he has begun to write his memoirs. Selected bibliography Books Igor Strawinsky: Zeitgeschichte im Persönlichkeitsbild: Grundlagen und Voraussetzungen zur modernen Konstruktionstechnik (Kölner Beiträge zur Musikforschung 10). Regensburg: Bosse-Verlag, 1958. Liturgie am Scheideweg: Betrachtungen zur Situation der Katholischen Kirchenmusik aus Anlass des Kölner Kongresses. Regensburg: Gustav Bosse–Verlag, 1962. Aufbruch der Jungen Musik: Von Webern bis Stockhausen (Die Garbe: Musikkunde 4), sixth edition. Cologne: Gerig-Verlag, 1979. . Quellentexte zur System- und Methodengeschichte der deutschen Musikkritik 1791–1833. Regensburg: Bosse-Verlag, 1990. Robert Schumanns Düsseldorfer Aufsatz "Neue Bahnen" und die Ausbreitung der Wagnerschen Opern bis 1856: Psychogramm eines "letzten" Artikels (Abhandlungen der Sächsischen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Leipzig, Philologisch-historische Klasse 73, no. 6). Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, 1993. . Kleine Monographie über Herbert Eimert (Abhandlungen der Sächsischen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Leipzig, Philologisch-Historische Klasse 75, no. 6). Leipzig: Verlag der Sächsischen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Leipzig; Stuttgart: Hirzel-Verlag, 1998. . Kommentiertes Verzeichnis der Werke und Werkausgaben Igor Strawinskys bis 1971 (Abhandlungen der Sächsischen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Leipzig, Philologisch-Historische Klasse 79). Stuttgart: Hirzel-Verlag; Leipzig: Verlag der Sächsischen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Leipzig, 2002.