Born in Weimar, Huschke's ancestors were physicians who stood in the circle of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and Friedrich Schiller and also treated them.
[1] Huschke was a school musician and has been a professor of music didactics at the Hochschule für Musik Franz Liszt, Weimar since 1993.
Prior to this, in 1977 he received his doctorate[2] in the field of musicology at the Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg.
Huschke's main research focus is the music history of Weimar.
In 2012 he became honorary senator of the Franz Liszt Academy of Music Weimar.