Siegfried Schmalzriedt

Siegfried Schmalzriedt (4 April 1941 – 9 December 2008) was a German musicologist, University lecturer and vice-rector of the Hochschule für Musik Karlsruhe.
Life and career.
Born in Stuttgart, Schmalzriedt studied musicology, Roman philology and comparative literature at the Universities of Tübingen, Paris and Bologna. He received his doctorate in 1969 in Tübingen with Walter Gerstenberg on the topic "Heinrich Schütz und andere zeitgenössische Musiker in der Lehre Giovanni Gabrielis". From 1970 to 1976 he was assistant to Georg von Dadelsen at the musicology seminar. Until 1983 he was employed in Freiburg im Breisgau as a research assistant and editor of the "" at the Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg.
Since 1983 he was professor of musicology at the University of Music Karlsruhe and head of the Institute for Musicology at the University of Karlsruhe. From 1986 to 1990 and again from 1992 to 1996 he served as vice-rector of the University of Music Karlsruhe.
Since 1999 he has been the editor of the "Karlsruher Beiträge zur Musikwissenschaft" (ISSN: 1434-4270), which is published annually.
From 1997 he was chairman of the board of trustees of the Max-Reger-Institut Karlsruhe and from 1999 to 2007 chairman of the Händel-Gesellschaft Karlsruhe. He was also active in the Handel Academy. He was a co-founder of the Association for the Promotion of Karlsruhe City History and its chairman until his death in Karlsruhe at age 67.