Siegmund Helms

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Siegmund Helms (born 14 December 1938) is a German musicologist and music educator.

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Siegmund Helms

Life

Born in Nordhorn, Helms studied school music (including philosophy, psychology and education) and geography as well as musicology (including ethnomusicology) in Hanover, Marburg and Berlin from 1958. In 1967, his doctorate was awarded the a PhD degree from the Free University of Berlin with a dissertation on Die Melodiebildung in den Liedern von J. Brahms und ihr Verhältnis zu Volksliedern und volkstümlichen Weisen. He passed the first and second Staatsexamen in 1964 in Berlin and 1968 in Kassel. Afterwards he worked as a teacher in Göttingen.

From 1971 to 1974, Helms was a lecturer in music education at the Pädagogische Hochschule Bayreuth and from 1974 to 1977, a professor of music education at the Musikhochschule Frankfurt. Subsequently, he took over a professorship for music education at the Musikhochschule Köln until 2002, where he was appointed, among other things, head of the Institute for School Music and deputy director of the Musikhochschule Rheinland (name of the Hochschule für Musik und Tanz Köln from 1972 to 1987) and later also dean of the Department Musikpädagogik/Musikwissenschaft. [1]

Helms was chairman of several German music education associations and a member of international committees. In addition, he was active as a journalist in many ways. He has been married since 1966 to the musicologist with a doctorate in musicology Marianne Helms née Henze.[ citation needed ]

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