Andreas Moser (musician)

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Andreas Moser (born November 29, 1859 in Semlin on the Danube , Syrmia , Austrian Empire ; † October 7, 1925 in Berlin ) was a German musician, music teacher and musicologist.

Life

Moser was the son of a winemaker and selcher from Upper Austria . As a child he received violin lessons and sang in the church choir. His high school singing teacher was Friedrich Hegar . From 1874 Moser attended the Zurich canton school. After graduating from high school, he first studied engineering at the Technical University of Zurich and architecture in Stuttgart. In addition to his studies, he gained further musical experience, among other things as first violinist of the Zurich student quartet and conductor of the Stuttgart academic choir. Finally he finally turned to music and in 1878 he became a student of Joseph Joachim at the Royal University of Music in Berlin , today's University of the Arts. The following year Moser took up a position there as an assistant teacher. In 1883 he got his first job as concertmaster at the Nationaltheater Mannheim , but had to give it up after a few months for health reasons. He initially worked as a private violin teacher and from 1888 as a lecturer at the Berlin University of Music. In 1900 he was appointed full professor for violin there. His students included Pálma von Pászthory , Josef Wolfsthal , Robert Imandt, Richard Czerwonky, Hans Bassermann and Julius Ruthström. 1925 awarded him the philosophical faculty of the University of Berlin , the honorary doctorate .

Moser played viola in the Joachim Quartet and led his own string quartet in the 1890s , which performed in Berlin. However, he suffered from a "nervous complaint of the arm" (E. van der Straeten), which prevented him from regularly performing at concerts, so he concentrated on teaching. In Berlin he became Joachim's most important assistant and together with him wrote music theoretical publications, especially the three-volume violin school of 1905. He also published a biography of Joachim, edited a collection of letters between Brahms and Joachim and after Joachim's death published the methodology of violin playing ( Leipzig, 1920) and technique of violin playing (Leipzig, 1925) and was editor of violin literature at Edition Peters and Universal Edition .

Since 1888 Moser was married to Edda (1868–1930), daughter of the writer Rudolf Elcho. The marriage resulted in a son, the musicologist Hans Joachim Moser .

In 1925 Moser retired and moved to Heidelberg. He suffered from cancer of the larynx and died in the same year as a result of an operation.

Publications

Fonts

  • with Joseph Joachim: Violin School (1908–1910), 3 volumes, Simrock Verlag Berlin
  • Methodology of violin playing (1920) Breitkopf & Härtel, Leipzig
  • History of Violin Playing (1923), Max Hesses Verlag, Berlin; 2nd improved and supplemented edition with Hans-Joachim Nösselt, Schneider Verlag, Tutzing 1966/67 (in 2 volumes)
  • Technique of violin playing (1925), Breitkopf & Härtel, Leipzig

Editing of notes

  • Bach: Concerto for 2 Violins, BWV 1043 (Peters, 1884).
  • Beethoven: String Quartet Op 59 No 1 (with Joachim) (Peters, 1902).
  • Beethoven: String Quartets, Op 127, 130, 131, 132, 133, 135 (with Joachim and Hugo Dechert) (Peters, 1901).
  • Haydn: 30 string quartets (with Hugo Dechert) (Peters, date unknown).
  • Mozart: 10 string quartets, KV 387, 421, 428, 458, 464, 465, 499, 576, 589, 590, (with Hugo Becker) (Peters, 1882).
  • Schubert, String Quartets, D 804, 810, 887, 703 (with Hugo Becker) (Peters, date unknown).

In addition to these editions, the concertos and other solo literature included in the Joachim / Moser violin, published by Simrock in 1905, include the Bach concertos BWV 1041 and 1043; the Beethoven Romances, Op 40 and 50; Brahms, Violin Concerto, Op 77; Handel, Sonata in A, HWV 361; Kreutzer, Violin Concerto No. 19: Mozart, Violin Concerts, K 218 and 219; Rode, Violin Concertos Nos 10 and 11; Spohr, Violin Concerto No 8; Tartini, “Devil's Trill” Sonata; Viotti, concert no.22

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Moser, Andreas. In: Walther Killy (Ed.): German biographical encyclopedia . Volume 7, Saur, Munich 1998.
  2. ^ A b Andreas Moser In: Arnold Ebel (Hrsg.): Berliner Musikjahrbuch. Publishing house Deutsche Tonkünstler AG, Berlin 1926.
  3. ↑ Andreas Moser In: The music in history and present MGG vol. 9, p. 625. Bärenreiter-Verlag 1986
  4. ^ Dagmar Droysen-Reber :  Moser, Hans Joachim. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 18, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1997, ISBN 3-428-00199-0 , pp. 191-193 ( digitized version ).
personal data
SURNAME Moser, Andreas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German music teacher and scholar
DATE OF BIRTH November 29, 1859
PLACE OF BIRTH Semlin on the Danube , Syrmia , Austrian Empire
DATE OF DEATH October 7, 1925
Place of death Berlin