Louis Kelterborn
Louis Rudolf Emanuel Kelterborn (born April 28, 1891 in Boston , Massachusetts , † July 19, 1933 in Peseux , Canton of Neuchâtel ) was a Swiss composer, conductor and organist. He was the great cousin of the composer Rudolf Kelterborn .
Kelterborn grew up as the son of the lawyer and later music critic Louis Wilhelm Kelterborn and the singer Bertha Fischer in Boston. In 1902 he moved with his mother to Basel , where he attended the humanistic grammar school , after which he studied first in Basel with Georg Haeser and Ernst Markees , and later in Geneva with Joseph Lauber . From 1917 to 1919 Kelterborn taught theory and music history in Basel, after which he worked as music director in Burgdorf until 1925 . In 1925 he followed a call to the director of the Landestheater in Recklinghausen (North Rhine-Westphalia). In 1927 he returned to Switzerland and became a teacher of harmony and organ at the Neuchâtel Conservatory .
His wife Elisabeth suffered in recent years from an incurable disease, after which finally both decided in the summer of 1933, suicide to commit. Kelterborn left behind an extensive oeuvre of compositions, including stage music, drama music, sacred music, choral and vocal works as well as chamber music.
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| SURNAME | Kelterborn, Louis |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Kelterborn, Louis Rudolf Emanuel (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swiss composer, conductor and organist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 28, 1891 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Boston , Massachusetts |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 19, 1933 |
| Place of death | Peseux , Canton of Neuchâtel |