Rudolf Moser ( German: Rudolf Moser ; January 7, 1892 , Niderutzwil - August 20, 1960 , Silvaplana ) - Swiss composer.
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The son of Johann Rudolph Moser (1827-1911), an entrepreneur and deputy of the National Council (1878-1882).
From childhood, he sang in the choir of boys, studied violin at the Basel Conservatory . During the semester, he studied theology at the University of Basel , but then he still made a choice in favor of music and in 1912 entered the Leipzig Conservatory , where he studied with Max Reger (composition), Hans Zitt (violin) and Julius Klengel (chamber ensemble). With the outbreak of World War I, he returned to Basel and continued his composer education at the Basel Conservatory under the guidance of Hans Huber and Herman Zuter , at the same time he studied musicology at the University of Karl Nef ; later also studied orchestration in Geneva with Joseph Lauber .
He performed as a violinist in Basel (especially as part of a string quartet), for some time he was choirmaster of the Basel Cathedral . Since 1928, he himself taught composition and theory of music at the Basel Conservatory. Among his students, in particular, Yehudi Menuhin and Paul Sacher . In the last years of his life, he also directed the Basel Boys Choir.
Moser's compositional legacy includes about a hundred works. Among them is the ballet Pied Piper (1940-1950), eleven instrumental concerts, chamber, choral and vocal compositions, numerous organ miniatures.
He died during a climbing.
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- ↑ 1 2 German National Library , Berlin State Library , Bavarian State Library , etc. Record # 123878578 // General regulatory control (GND) - 2012—2016.
- ↑ 1 2 BNF identifier : Open Data Platform 2011.
- ↑ 1 2 International Music Score Library Project - 2006.