Lehrer-Schüler-Verhältnisse und Diskussionen um die Nachfolge Jacques Handschins am Basler Lehrstuhl für Musikwissenschaft

Based upon recently discovered letters between Paul Sacher and Manfred Bukofzer as well as some sources from Jacques Handschin’s archive, this article reexamines an important moment in the history of musical life in Basel: the autumn of 1955 and the search for a new head of the Basel musicology department, which became one of the centres of international musicology in the post-war era.