The Editors

Helmut Loos (b. 1950) studied music education, musicology, philosophy and art history. After qualifying as a university lecturer, he was Director of the Institut für deutsche Musik im Osten [Institute for German Music in the East] in Bergisch Gladbach from 1989–93. He has been Professor of Musicology at the University of Leipzig since October 2001. Loos specialises in the music of the 19th and 20th centuries, in particular the reception of Beethoven, sacred music and links between Germany and Central and Eastern Europe

Wilhelm Seidel studied music, musicology and history in Freiburg and Heidelberg. He obtained his doctorate in 1966 in Heidelberg with a dissertation on Die Lieder Ludwig Senfls; he became a university lecturer there in 1973 with a habilitation publication Über Rhythmustheorien der Neuzeit. He was professor at the universities of Heidelberg, Marburg and Leipzig. His publications are devoted to the temporal structure of music, music aesthetics in the 18th and 19th centuries and music of the 16th to 20th centuries, currently on Mozart and Mendelssohn.