Andres Briner (31 May 1923 – 1 June 2014) was a Swiss music historian, academic and art journalist Briner was born in Zürich and educated at the University of Zurich.
[1] In 1953 he received his doctorate from Antoine-Elisée Cherbuliez at the University of Zurich.
[1] He worked with Rolf Liebermann at the Zurich Radio Studio from 1953 to 1955, after which he went to the Department of Music at the University of Pennsylvania, where he taught until 1964.
From 1964 to 1988 he was the successor of Willi Schuh as editor of the feature section of the Neue Zürcher Zeitung in the fields of music and musicology.
Briner's main areas of work were the work of Paul Hindemith and New German School since 1880, as well as composers in Switzerland and the history of music in Zurich.