Ingo Harden (born 26 February 1928) is a German music critic and writer.
Born in Hamburg, Harden studied musicology with Heinrich Husmann and piano with Ilse Fromm-Michaels. From 1954 he worked first as an author and later as an editor for the then Nordwestdeutscher Rundfunk. In 1964 he took over the editorial office of Fono Forum and headed the journal until 1976. From 1964 he was one of the jurors, later until 2000 managing secretary of the Preis der deutschen Schallplattenkritik. From 1977 to 1991 Harden was the German representative of the International Record Critics' Award. After decades of work as a record critic for trade journals and daily newspapers such as Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung and Die Welt , Harden is still active today as an author for radio and books.
Walther Heissig was an Austrian Mongolist.
Walter Fedor Georg Abendroth was a German composer, editor, and writer on music.
Egon Voss is a German musicologist, who is particularly known for his contributions to Richard Wagner research.
Silke Leopold is a German musicologist and university lecturer.
Walter Salmen was a German musicologist and university lecturer. Salmen taught from 1958 to 1992 as a professor of musicology at the Saarland University and the University of Kiel. Afterwards, he was for many years the full professor of the Musicological Institute of the University of Innsbruck. As a guest lecturer, he also worked in Switzerland, Israel and the United States. After retirement, he lived in Kirchzarten near Freiburg im Breisgau, and worked as honorary professor at the University of Freiburg.
Peter Ludwig Gülke is a German conductor and musicologist.
Klaus Pietschmann is a German musicologist. Since 2009 he has been teaching at the University of Mainz.
Elisabeth Schmierer is a German musicologist. She researches and teaches at the Folkwang University of the Arts in Essen.
Matthias Herrmann is a German musicologist and university professor.
Friedhelm Krummacher is a German musicologist.
Gerhard Erber was a German classical pianist and academic teacher. He played as a member of the East German ensemble Gruppe Neue Musik Hanns Eisler, which focused on contemporary chamber music. He was a professor of piano at the University of Music and Theatre Leipzig, and organised a Bach competition in Köthen.
Tiburtius Tibor Kneif was a German-Hungarian lawyer and musicologist.
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The Strub-Quartett was a well-known German string quartet from Berlin (1929–1945) and Detmold (1945–1965), named after primarius Max Strub.
Theodor Friedrich Wilhelm Willi Kahl was a German musicologist.
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Manuela Schwartz is a German musicologist.
Werner Bärtschi is a Swiss composer and classical pianist.
Erich Valentin was a German musicologist.
Siegfried Stöckigt was a German classical pianist.