Joseph Lauber (composer)

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Anton Joseph Lauber (born December 27, 1864 in Ruswil , † May 28, 1952 in Geneva ) was a Swiss composer .

Life

Already in his early years Lauber appeared as a pianist in an orchestra that his father directed. A patron enabled him to enter the Zurich Conservatory in 1881 , where he became a student of Gustav Weber and Friedrich Hegar . He continued his studies in Munich in 1884 with Josef Gabriel Rheinberger (organ) and at the Conservatoire de Paris with Louis Diémer and Jules Massenet (piano and composition). After a few years as an organist in Le Locle ( Canton Neuchâtel ), he taught himself at the Zurich Conservatory from 1899 to 1901 and then moved to Geneva. There he was theater music director for two years and from 1907 professor for piano and instrumentation at the Geneva Conservatory , from 1917 professor for composition. Henri Gagnebin and especially Frank Martin were among his students in Geneva .

In 1899 Lauber became a co-founder of the Swiss Tonkünstlerverein .

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Lauber's catalog of works, comprising over 200 numbers, covers almost all musical genres. In addition to an opera, he wrote, among other things, 5 symphonies, symphonic poems, 2 piano concertos and 2 violin concertos, numerous chamber music works and vocal compositions.

His style is rooted on the one hand in the German late romanticism , but on the other hand it takes on influences from French Impressionism . He himself particularly valued the music of Claude Debussy , Gabriel Fauré and Henri Duparc .

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SURNAME Lauber, Joseph
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Lauber, Anton Joseph
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss composer
DATE OF BIRTH December 27, 1864
PLACE OF BIRTH Ruswil
DATE OF DEATH May 28, 1952
Place of death Geneva