Siegfried Schmalzriedt (4 April 1941 – 9 December 2008) was a German musicologist, University lecturer and vice-rector of the Hochschule für Musik Karlsruhe.
Born in Stuttgart, Schmalzriedt studied[1] musicology, Roman philology and comparative literature at the Universities of Tübingen, Paris and Bologna.
He received his doctorate in 1969 in Tübingen with Walter Gerstenberg on the topic Heinrich Schütz und andere zeitgenössische Musiker in der Lehre Giovanni Gabrielis.
[2] From 1970 to 1976 he was assistant to Georg von Dadelsen at the musicology seminar.
Since 1999 he has been the editor of the Karlsruher Beiträge zur Musikwissenschaft (ISSN: 1434-4270), which is published annually.