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CHRISTOPH-HELLMUT MAHLING studied musicology at the Universities of Tübingen and Saarbrücken with W. Gerstenberg, G. Reichert, J. Müller-Blattau and W. Salmen. In 1962 he received his doctorate (Dr.phil.) with a dissertation entitled “Studien zur Geschicte des Opernchors,” and began work as assistant professor in the Musicology Department of the University of Saarland, Saarbrücken. There he obtained his professorship in musicology in 1972 (with Walter Wiora) with the dissertation “Orchester und Orkester-Musiker in Deutschland von 1700 bis 1850.” In the same year he started to work as Professor and “Wissenschaftlicher Rat.” Since 1981 he has held a full professorship at Johannes Guttenberg University of Mainz, where he is head of the Musicology Department. Between 1961 and 1981 Dr. Mahling was editor of the Musikforschung (partly in collaboration with L. Finscher and W. Dömling). Since 1970 he has been a member of the editorial board of the International Review of Music Aesthetics and Sociology, and in 1984 was elected member of the Zentralinstitut für Musikforschung at Salzburg. Included in his numerous publications are articles on eighteenth- and nineteenth-century music history dealing with historical performance practice, the history of opera and instrumental music, and the social history of music. In addition, Dr. Mahling is a collaborator of the Neue Mozart-Ausgabe (violin concertos and other publications). From 1987 to 1992 he was president of the International Musicological Society.