Arnold Schmitz

Arnold Schmitz (11 July 1893 – 1 November 1980) was a German musicologist who was particularly concerned with Beethoven.

Born in Le Sablon [fr], Metz, Schmitz habilitated in 1921 and was subsequently professor at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn and the Breslau University.

From 1946 he taught at the University of Mainz, whose rector he was in 1953/54 and 1960/61.

[1] He was a member of the Historische Kommission für Schlesien [de].

Schmitz died in Mainz at age 87.