Heinrich W. Schwab

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Heinrich Wilhelm Schwab (born 8 May 1938) is a German musicologist.

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Born in Ludwigshafen [1] Schwab received his doctorate from the University of Saarbrücken in 1964 with a thesis on the influences of 18th century music on that of the 19th century. From 1966 he took part in a research project at the University of Kiel that focused on Scandinavian and Baltic music history. Since 1998 he was professor for musicology at the University of Copenhagen. He has been a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Music and the Norwegian Academy of Sciences since 1998, and of the Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters since 1999 and since 2005 a member of the Academia Europaea. [2] In 2009 he was awarded the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany on ribbon.

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