Heinz von Loesch


Heinz von Loesch is a German musicologist. He researches and teaches at the Technical University Berlin.

Life

Born in Frankfurt, Loesch is the son of, the former director of the, and the SPD politician Grete von Loesch.
At first he completed a cello study with Gerhard Mantel and Pierre Fournier, which he furthered with the artistic maturity examination in 1983. From 1980 to 1985 he was a member of the. At the same time he studied musicology with Carl Dahlhaus and Helga de la Motte-Haber at the Technical University of Berlin until 1991, where he received his doctorate in 1991 and his habilitation in 1999. Afterwards he was a research assistant at the State Institute for Music Research and then also professor at the Technical University of Berlin.

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