Jobst Peter Fricke (born 5 September 1930) is a German musicologist[1] and professor at the musicological institute of the University of Cologne.
In 1959/1960 he obtained his doctorate with his work Über subjektive Differenztöne höchster hörbarer Töne und des angrenzenden Ultraschalls im musikalischen Hören.
In 1969, once habilitated, also in Cologne, Fricke began to work on his thesis Intonation und musikalisches Hören.
Since 1972 he also had a teaching position for acoustics and music psychology at the Hochschule für Musik und Tanz Köln.
Among his students are Wolfgang Auhagen, Roland Eberlein, Bernd Enders, Matthias Hornschuh, Christoph Reuter, Rudolf Wille and Rosemarie Tüpker.