Andreas Holschneider (6 April 1931 – 24 September 2019) was a German music historian and writer.
in 1960 with a thesis on Handel'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.
Holschneider lived in Baden-Baden until his death there in September 2019 at age 88.