Hellmut Federhofer
Deceased Person
1911 – 2014
Who was Hellmut Federhofer?
Hellmut Federhofer was an Austrian musicologist. Born in Graz, he studied music there and in Vienna at the Vienna Conservatory, graduating in 1936. In 1937, he became a librarian at the library of the Technische Hochschule Graz and later the Universitätsbibliothek Graz. He became director of the BTH in 1940. In 1959 he became professor of music theory. From 1962 until 1979 he was director of the musicology Institute of Mainz University, where he became Emeritus Professor of musicology.
Federhofer was an honorary member of the Österreichische Gesellschaft für Musikwissenschaft and the Akademie für Mozart-Forschung In 2001 he received an honorary doctorate from the Philosophy department of the University of Graz. He turned 100 in August 2011. He died in 2014 at the age of 102.
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- Born
- Aug 6, 1911
Graz - Nationality
- Austria
- Education
- University of Music and Performing Arts, Vienna
- Died
- May 1, 2014
Mainz
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on July 23, 2013
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