Albrecht Riethmüller

Since 2000 Riethmüller is editor of the journal Archiv für Musikwissenschaft including supplements. He currently heads academy research centers and musicological projects in Collaborative Research Centers of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft and is a member of the International Research Training Group InterArt and Principal Investigator of the Cluster Languages of Emotion at the Freie Universität Berlin.

In 1999 he received the John G. Diefenbaker Award from the Canada Council for the Arts in Ottawa, and since 2002 he has been an Affiliated Faculty Member of the Canadian Centre for German and European Studies at York University in Toronto. He participated in the academic self-administration and scientific organization as Dean and Vice Dean of the Department of Classical Philology and Art Studies at the Goethe University Frankfurt (1988-1991), the Department of Classical Studies at the Freie Universität Berlin (1995-1999), the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft in Bonn (1992-2000), the Austrian Science Fund in Vienna (1993-2004), and the Chair of the Senate Commission for Research and Young Academics at the Freie Universität Berlin (1997-1999). He was a lecturer of the Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes (1990-2004) and has been chairman of the Kommission für Musikwissenschaft der Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur Mainz since 1991, member of the Committee for Musicological Editions of the Union of the German Academies of Sciences and Humanities (since 1991) and of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Beethoven House (since 2001). Since 2004 he represents the Union of German Academies of Sciences at ALLEA (All European Academies) in Amsterdam.

In 1986 he was appointed Professor of musicology at the Goethe University Frankfurt, succeeding Ludwig Finscher, and in 1992 he was appointed Professor at the Freie Universität Berlin, succeeding Rudolf Stephan. Since 1991 he has been a member of the Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur.

Albrecht Riethmüller (born 21 January 1947) is a German musicologist.

Born in 1947 in Stuttgart, Riethmüller studied musicology, philosophy and modern German literature at the Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, where he received his doctorate in 1974 from Hans Heinrich Eggebrecht with the dissertation Die Musik als Abbild der Realität, and habilitated in 1984 with his study on Ferruccio Busoni's Poetik. He first took a guest professorship at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign (1983), and held substitute professorships at the universities of Heidelberg, (1984/85) and Frankfurt (1986). Riethmüller held additional teaching positions at the Hochschule für Musik Freiburg (1985–87) and at the Martin Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg (1994).