Andreas Holschneider (6 April 1931 – 24 September 2019) was a German music historian and writer.
Holschneider was born in 1931 in Freiburg im Breisgau as the oldest of four sons of the chemist Friedrich Wilhelm Holschneider and Olga Holschneider, née Krafft. He studied piano with Edith Picht-Axenfeld at the Hochschule für Musik Freiburg where he received his concert diploma in 1956, then studied musicology and Romance studies and was awarded the degree "pianist" (Dr. phil.) in 1960 with a thesisonHandel's Messias in Mozart's arrangement at the Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen.
After a one-year research stay in Italy to study sources for the Neue Mozart-Ausgabe, he became an assistant at the Musicological Institute of Hamburg University. He got his habilitation there with a thesis on the earliest counterpoint music pieces in the Middle Ages. In 1970 he took over the management of the Archiv ProduktionofDeutsche Grammophon. After various stages of his career within Deutsche Grammophon Gesellschaft, he became Managing Director and President of Deutsche Grammophon in 1987.
Holschneider lived in Baden-Baden until his death there in September 2019 at age 88.[1][2]
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