Hans Heinz Stuckenschmidt

Hans Heinz Stuckenschmidt (1901-1988) was a German music critic, musicologist and composer, born in Strasbourg and active mostly in Berlin. He wrote for decades about the music of his own century and is known in particular for his books on Arnold Schoenberg (1951 and 1974). Stuckenschmidt started as Berlin correspondent for the Prague paper Bohemia, took part in the November Group concerts with Max Butting in 1927-28 and became critic of the Berliner Zeitung am Mittag in 1929. The Nazi authorities banned him from writing in 1934.