Christoph-Hellmut Mahling


Christoph-Hellmut Mahling was a German musicologist and lecturer at various universities.

Life and career

Born in Berlin, Mahling studied musicology by Walter Gerstenberg, Georg Reichert, Joseph Müller-Blattau, and Walter Salmen at the University of Tübingen and the Saarland University from 1957 to 1962.
In 1962 he obtained his doctorate of phil. and became assistant at the Musicological Institute of the Saarland University in 1963. In 1972, he won his habilitation there with Walter Wiora for the subject Musicology. In the same year he was appointed Scientific Councilor and Professor. Since 1981 he had a professorship at the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz; until March 2000 he was director of the musicological institute there. From 1987 to 1992 Mahling was president of the International Musicological Society. Mahling also acted as one of the leading pioneers of a complete edition of the letters of Gaspare Spontini, which have been published by since 2013 in Göttingen.
Mahling died in Mainz at age 79.

Selected publications