Louis Moyse

Louis Joseph Moyse [lwi mɔiz] (born August 14, 1912 in Scheveningen , † July 30, 2007 in Montpelier , USA ) was a French flautist and composer .

Life

Louis Moyse, son of the well-known flautist Marcel Moyse , was initially tutored by his father. In the 1920s he studied flute and piano at the Conservatoire de Paris , and also worked for the Paris Opéra-Comique . In addition, he played in orchestras that mainly accompanied silent films . During this time he also worked with composers such as Gabriel Fauré , Claude Debussy and Maurice Ravel . After completing his studies at the Paris Conservatory in 1932, he became an assistant to his father, who was a professor of flute at the Conservatoire de Paris. In 1939 he married the Swiss violinist Blanche Honegger ; the marriage resulted in four children.

After the Second World War , Moyse and his family first came to Argentina , but then settled in Brattleboro in the US state of Vermont , where he and his father, wife, Adolf Busch and his son-in-law Rudolf Serkin, among others, lived in the early 1950s. Years founded the Marlboro School of Music and the Marlboro Music Festival. Louis Moyse, who also taught at the universities of Toronto and Boston , composed over 170 works and gave countless masterclasses well into old age .

Moyse spent the last decade of his life with his second wife, Janet White, to whom he had been married since 1974, in Montpelier, Vermont, where he died of heart failure in late July 2007, shortly before the age of 95.

literature

• John J. Duffy, Samuel B. Hand, Ralph H. Orth: The Vermont Encyclopedia. Univ. Press of New England, Hannover 2003, ISBN 1-58465-086-9 , p. 213.

Web links

• Anne Midgette: Louis Moyse, Founder of Music School, Dies at 94 . In: New York Times . August 9, 2007 ( nytimes.com [accessed February 19, 2015]).