Antoine-Elisée Cherbuliez

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Antoine-Elisée Cherbuliez (born August 22, 1888 in Mulhouse , † October 15, 1964 in Zurich ) was a Swiss musicologist .

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Antoine-Elisée Cherbuliez was born as the son of the science historian and physicist Émile Cherbuliez and Emma Cherbuliez. Born Koeckert. From 1902 to 1905 he studied the cello at the Strasbourg Conservatory and had private organ lessons with Albert Schweitzer . In 1911 he graduated from the ETH Zurich with a degree in engineering. His doctorate in civil engineering took place at the Technical University of Darmstadt .

From 1913 to 1916 he studied again the cello (with Georg Wille in Dresden) and as a private student in theory and composition with Max Reger . From 1915 he trained as a choir director with Siegfried Ochs in Berlin. From 1917 to 1921 Cherbuliez worked as music director in Wattwil , from 1921 to 1942 in Chur and Arosa . He began his career as a musicologist in 1923 with the qualification as Dr. phil. and his habilitation at the University of Zurich , where he was lecturer or professor of musicology until 1958, and later also at the ETH Zurich.

He was the brother of the chemist Emile Cherbuliez .

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SURNAME Cherbuliez, Antoine-Elisée
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss musicologist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH August 22, 1888
PLACE OF BIRTH Mulhouse
DATE OF DEATH October 15, 1964
Place of death Zurich