Willi Schuh
Swiss journalist (1900-1986)
Willi Schuh (12 November 1900 – 4 October 1986) was a Swiss musicologist. He was particularly noted for his research on the life and works of the composer Richard Strauss.
Life
Schuh was born in Basel on 12 November 1900. He initially studied music with Eugen Kutschera and Werner Wehrli in Aarau and with Eugen Papst in Bern. From 1920 he was a private student Walter Courvoisier in Munich. At the same time he studied musical composition with Anton Beer-Walbrunn at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater München. In 1922 Schuh began studying musicology with Adolf Sandberger at the University of Music and Performing Arts Munich and art, literature and theatre history with Heinrich Wölfflin, Fritz Strich and Artur Kutscher. In 1924 he continued his studies in Bern with Ernst Kurth and others. He gained his doctorate in 1927 on the thema Formenprobleme bei Heinrich Schütz.
From 1928 Schuh initially worked in Zurich as a music critic for the Neue Zürcher Zeitung.
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