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Michael Schmidt (musicologist) is a German music journalist, editor, author and honorary professor at the University of Music and Performing Arts Munich.

Life

Michael Schmidt studied piano, musicology, philosophy and history in Cologne and Freiburg. In 1987, he completed his doctorate at the Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg with a thesis on the piano poems of Alexander Scriabin. After a traineeship at Deutschlandfunk in Cologne and an internship at ZDF in Mainz, he worked as a music editor at Bayerischer Rundfunk in Munich from 1990 and from 2003 to 2023 as coordinator of the classical music portal and trimedial program focal points of the BR-KLASSIK program area. Michael Schmidt is particularly interested in the multimedia mediation of music as well as the ethics and aesthetics of digital music culture. This focus also characterizes his publications and his diverse teaching.

Works

•	Ekstase als musikalisches Symbol in den Klavierpoemes Alexander Skrjabins, Pfaffenweiler 1989, ISBN 3-89085-180-0 •	Hat Musik ein Geschlecht?, ed. by Wolf Loeckle and Michael Schmidt, Regensburg 1997, ISBN 3-930079-81-X •	Zukunftsmusik für Kulturwellen, ed. by Ruth Blaes, Arnd Richter and Michael Schmidt, Berlin und Wiesbaden 2002, ISBN 3-89158-344-3 •	Capriccio für Siegfried Palm, Regensburg 2005, ISBN 3-932581-71-7 •	Philosophy of Media Sounds, ed. by. Michael Schmidt, New York 2009, ISBN 978-0-9819972-6-1 •	polyphonie.vernetzt, Perspektiven multimedialer Musikvermittlung, ed.. by Michael Schmidt, Regensburg 2012, ISBN 978-3-940768-33-9 •	Hat Musikjournalismus noch eine Zukunft?, ed. by Robert Jungwirth and Michael Schmidt, Würzburg 2021, ISBN 978-3-8260-7449-3 •	Zwischen Tönen, München 2022, ISBN 978-3-96707-764-3 •	WagnerVisionen, München 2023, ISBN 978-3-96707-786-5

Links

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Schmidt_(Musikwissenschaftler)