Siegmund Helms

Siegmund Helms (born 14 December 1938) is a German musicologist and music educator.

In 1967, his doctorate was awarded the a PhD degree from the Free University of Berlin with a dissertation on Die Melodiebildung in den Liedern von J. Brahms und ihr Verhältnis zu Volksliedern und volkstümlichen Weisen.

Subsequently, he took over a professorship for music education at the Musikhochschule Köln until 2002, where he was appointed, among other things, head of the Institute for School Music and deputy director of the Musikhochschule Rheinland (name of the Hochschule für Musik und Tanz Köln from 1972 to 1987) and later also dean of the Department Musikpädagogik/Musikwissenschaft.

[1] Helms was chairman of several German music education associations and a member of international committees.

He has been married since 1966 to the musicologist with a doctorate in musicology Marianne Helms née Henze.