Leo Riemens

Leonardus Antony Marinus Riemens (3 December 1910 – 3 April 1985) was a Dutch musicologist and cultural journalist.

[1] He studied musicology in Amsterdam and worked from 1931 as a feature editor for the newspaper Het Vaderland [nl].

For the record series Lebendige Vergangenheit published by Jürgen Schmidt he wrote cover texts for almost unknown singers.

[1][4] Riemens published a small vocal encyclopedia in German with Karl-Josef Kutsch in 1962 under the title Unvergängliche Stimmen: kleines Sängerlexicon [Immortal Voices: Concise Dictionary of Singers],[5] which was expanded in 1966[6] and translated into English, expanded, and annotated by Harry Earl Jones and published as A Concise Biographical Dictionary of Singers in 1969.

[4] Riemens died in Maastricht and is buried with Rietje Hendriks at the Tongerseweg cemetery.