Martin Staehelin (born 25 September 1937) is a Swiss musicologist and university lecturer.
Born in Basel, [1] Staehelin first studied ancient languages, history, school music and flute. In 1967, he received his doctorate in musicology and ancient languages as minor subjects.
After his Zurich habilitation on the composer Heinrich Isaac, Staehelin first became director of the Beethoven Archive and Beethoven House in Bonn before being appointed professor of musicology at the University of Göttingen in 1983.
In 2013, he gave the laudation for the award of the Lichtenberg Medal to Joshua Rifkin. [2]