Arnold Schmitz
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Arnold Schmitz (11 July 1893 – 1 November 1980) was a German musicologist who was particularly concerned with Beethoven.
Born in Le Sablon, Metz, Schmitz habilitated in 1921 and was subsequently professor at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn and the Breslau University. From 1946 he taught at the University of Mainz, whose rector he was in 1953/54 and 1960/61.[1] He was a member of the Historische Kommission für Schlesien.[2] In 1973, the Beethoven House in Bonn appointed him an honorary member for his Beethoven research.
Schmitz died in Mainz at age 87.
