Emil Adolf Hoffmann

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Emil Adolf Hoffmann (born March 9, 1879 in Aarau ; † July 5, 1963 there ) was a Swiss composer .

Hoffmann was music director in Aarau from 1921 to 1944 . I.a. Until 1940 he composed “two German masses for three- to four-part female choir . The first was moved by Böhm , Augsburg, the second by Coppenrath, Regensburg ”.

literature

  • Schweizerischer Tonkünstlerverein (Ed.): L'Association des musiciens suisses dans le second quart de siècle de son existence: volume commémoratif, publié à l'occasion du jubilé 1900–1950 . Short biography. Atlantis Verlag, 1950, p. 187 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Willi Schuh , Edgar Refardt : Musiklexikon (= Swiss music book. Volume 2). Atlantis, Zurich 1939, p. 97.
  2. Klaus Wloemer: History of Christian Catholic Church Music in Switzerland. Christkatholischer Medienverlag, Allschwil 2007, Volume 1, p. 299.
  3. Klaus Wloemer: History of Christian Catholic Church Music in Switzerland . tape 1 . Christkatholischer Medienverlag, 2007, DNB  1028815182 , p. 33 and 115 ff .
  4. Biographical data . In: Gesellschaft Schweizerische Musikzeitung (ed.): Revue musicale suisse . tape 80 , 1940, p. 270 .