Christian Martin Schmidt (10 November 1942 – 16 October 2024) was a German musicologist and music theorist.
Born in Dessau, Schmidt studied musicology from 1963 at the University of Hamburg, as well as in Tübingen, Paris, Göttingen and Berlin.
Subsequently, Schmidt worked on the Arnold Schönberg complete edition.
After his habilitation (with an analytical work on Schönberg's Moses und Aron) and a professorship in Amsterdam, he held the chair of Music history at Technische Universität Berlin[1] from 1991 until his emeritus as successor to Carl Dahlhaus.
From 1992 he was project manager of the Leipzig Edition of the Works of Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy at the Saxon Academy of Sciences and Humanities.