# Helmut Loos

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{{short description|German musicologist and emeritus scholar (born 1950)}}
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'''Helmut Loos''' (born 5 July 1950)  is a German [musicologist](/source/musicologist) and [emeritus](/source/emeritus) scholar.

== Life ==
Born in [Niederkrüchten](/source/Niederkr%C3%BCchten), Loos studied [music education](/source/music_education) from 1971 to 1974 and [musicology](/source/musicology), [art history](/source/art_history) and philosophy from 1974 to 1980 at the University of Bonn. He received his [doctorate](/source/doctorate) in 1980 and was a research assistant at the Musicology Department of the University of Bonn from 1981 to 1989. In 1989 he completed his [habilitation](/source/habilitation).

From 1989 to 1993 Loos was director of the Institute for German Music in the East in [Bergisch Gladbach](/source/Bergisch_Gladbach). In April 1993 he was appointed to the chair of historical musicology at the [Technical University of Chemnitz](/source/Technical_University_of_Chemnitz).

From October 2001 to March 2017 he held a professorship at the {{Ill|Institute for Musicology of the University of Leipzig|de}}.

His research focuses on the music of the 19th and 20th centuries, [religious music](/source/religious_music) and the music-cultural relations of Germany with Central and Eastern Europe.

== Publications ==
* ''Zur Klavierübertragung von Werken für und mit Orchester des 19. und 20. Jahrhunderts. Ein Beitrag zur Geschichte des Klavierauszuges'' (''Schriften zur Musik'', vol. 25), Munich/Salzburg 1983
* ''[Weihnachten](/source/Weihnachten) in der Musik. Grundzüge der Geschichte weihnachtlicher Musik''<ref>{{WorldCat|oclc=953177042|name=Weihnachten in der Musik : Grundzüge der Geschichte weihnachtlicher Musik}}</ref> 
* ''[Robert Schumann](/source/Robert_Schumann). Werk und Leben''<ref>{{WorldCat|oclc=781068512|name=Robert Schumann : Werk und Leben}}</ref> (Vienna: Edition Steinbauer, 2010, {{ISBN|978-3-902494-44-3}})
* ''[Frédéric Chopin](/source/Fr%C3%A9d%C3%A9ric_Chopin), as Robert Schumann and [Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy](/source/Felix_Mendelssohn_Bartholdy) have seen him. Two Warsaw Lectures''<ref>{{WorldCat|oclc=775068228|name=Frédéric Chopin, wie ihn Robert Schumann und Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy gesehen haben : zwei Warschauer Vorträge}}</ref> (Leipzig: Schröder, 2011, {{ISBN|978-3-926196-62-0}})
* ''E-Musik – Kunstreligion der Moderne. [Beethoven](/source/Beethoven) und andere Götter''<ref>{{WorldCat|oclc=985982183|name=E-Musik - Kunstreligion der Moderne Beethoven und andere Götter}}</ref> ([Bärenreiter](/source/B%C3%A4renreiter), Kassel 2017, {{ISBN|978-3-761824-35-1}})

== Further reading ==
* Helmut Loos in [Ludwig Finscher](/source/Ludwig_Finscher), ''The music in history and the present''. (Second edition, personal part, volume 12).<ref>{{cite book |title=Die Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart. Personenteil, Band 12: Mer-Pai |publisher=Bärenreiter |isbn=3-7618-1122-5 |edition=2|date=2004}}</ref>

== References ==
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== External links==
* [https://www.gko.uni-leipzig.de/musikwissenschaft/institut/personal/prof-dr-helmut-loos.html Helmut Loos auf der Website der Universität Leipzig] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191225145121/https://www.gko.uni-leipzig.de/musikwissenschaft/institut/personal/prof-dr-helmut-loos.html |date=2019-12-25 }}

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