Richard Baum (musicologist)
Richard Hellmuth Baum (8 April 1902 – 6 September 2000) was a German musicologist and music historian. Life Family and education Born in Esslingen am Neckar, Baum, son of the trader Wilhelm Baum and his wife Klara, née Schweitzer, was baptized Protestant and passed his Abitur at the Realgymnasium in Esslingen am Neckar in 1920. He then devoted himself to the study of literary criticism at the Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen, in 1921 he transferred to the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, where he studied musicology with Adolf Sandberger, literature and education, and in 1926 he received his Dr. phil. doctorate. Baum married to Margarete née Burrey in 1936. One child was born of this union. He died in September 2000 at the age of 98 in Kassel. Career Immediately after his doctorate, Baum took up the post as the first editor at the Augsburg Bärenreiter-Verlag, which moved to Kassel in 1927. He later became a literary editor and worked for this publishing house until his ceremonial retirement in 1971. From 1933 to 1977, Baum served as the first chairman of the Arbeitskreis für Hausmusik (AfH), since 1969 the International Arbeitskreis für Musik (IAM). In this function he was