You are bidding on one typewritten, signed postcard of musicologist, composer, singer and writer Hans-Joachim Moser (1889-1967).

Hans Joachim Moser was the father of the singer Edda Moser (* 1938), the cellist Kai Moser (* 1944), the folklorist and literary scholar Dietz-Rüdiger Moser (1939-2010) and the opera singer (tenor) Wolf-Hildebrand Moser (* 1943 ).

Dated Berlin, 29. May 1959.

addressed to the pianist, composer, writer and music critic Erwin Kroll (1886-1976) in Berlin.

Thanks for a birthday present and a telegram.

Signed "[always yours] Hans Joachim Moser."

Condition: Card bent and perforated on the side. Paper browned, with slight edge damage. BPlease also note the pictures!

Internal note: Kroll 2021-12-11 autograph autograph

About Hans Joachim Moser and adultin Kroll (source: wikipedia):

Hans-Joachim Moser (* 25. May 1889 in Berlin; † 14 August 1967) was a German musicologist, composer, singer and writer.

Life: Moser was the son of the music professor Andreas Moser (1859–1925). In 1907 he graduated from the humanistic Bismarck High School in Berlin. He studied music history (with Gustav Jenner and Robert Kahn, among others), German and philosophy in Marburg, Berlin and Leipzig and the violin with his father. He received his doctorate in Rostock in 1910 with his work The musicians' cooperatives in the German Middle Ages. During his studies he sang in the choir of the St. Pauli Leipzig choir.

He took part in World War I as a lieutenant, qualified as a professor at the University of Halle in 1919 and became an associate professor in 1922. He became a member of the Salia Halle singers. In 1925 he accepted a call to Heidelberg. From 1927 to 1933 he succeeded Carl Thiel as director of the State Academy for Church and School Music in Berlin. At the same time he received an honorary professorship at the University of Berlin.

In 1933 Moser lost his honorary professorship at the University of Berlin. According to Nazi researcher Michael Grüttner, there were no political reasons for this. Moser was accused of having given advantages to female students with whom he had an intimate relationship as director of the State Academy: “He had those who knew about it removed from the academy”.

Despite the existing admission ban, he was dismissed with effect from January 1st. Admitted to the NSDAP on April 1936 (membership number 3,751,261). In 1938 Moser became deputy head of the Reich Office for Music Arrangements in the Reich Ministry for Public Enlightenment and Propaganda; from 1940 to 1945 he was its general secretary. From 1940 onwards, under his aegis, the Reichsstelle commissioned the “Aryanization” of George Frideric Handel’s oratorios. In the period from 1938 to 1940, Moser also wrote for the SS newspaper Germanien. From 1944 he published in Rosenberg's magazine Musik im Kriege.

Moser received a professorship at the University of Jena in 1947, but was dismissed after two months because of his work in the Ministry of Propaganda. From 1950 to 1960 Moser was director of the Municipal Conservatory in West Berlin. In 1963 he was awarded the Mozart Medal by the Mozart Community in Vienna.

Moser wrote studies on numerous composers such as Paul Hofhaimer, Heinrich Schütz and Johann Sebastian Bach as well as studies on the German song since Mozart. In the 1920s he published a three-volume history of German music that was reprinted several times. After the Second World War, Moser wrote a history of Protestant church music in Germany and numerous biographical treatises, such as B. the history of music in 100 life pictures. By 1955, his music encyclopedia went through four editions. Its 2nd The 1943 edition[7] is strongly permeated by National Socialist ideas (in accordance with the Nuremberg Race Laws, people are marked as (j.) or (hj.); von Offenbach is said to have made an impact with the instinct of his race; Mahler's 10 symphonies were excessively overestimated pro-Jewish and showed banal inventions and empty lengths). In the 3rd edition of the Musik-Lexikon (1951) such attributions have been removed. However, the pictures of his life (Reclam 1958) show his still ethnic thinking, for example in the article on Mozart: “In the south of Salzburg, which was overwhelmed by foreigners (from where shortly before thousands of Protestants who were aware of the people had been expelled), he gradually gained German sympathy and contributed to the world standing of our music decisive at.". The book The Music of the German Tribes (1957), in the tradition of the Germanist Josef Nadler, was also published. Moser was the reworker of the Monuments of German Music (DDT).

Moser's compositional oeuvre includes piano pieces, songs, incidental music and choral works.

Hans Joachim Moser died in mid-August 1967 at the age of 78 in Berlin. The burial took place in the state-owned cemetery Heerstraße in today's district of Berlin-Westend. The tomb has not survived.

family

Moser was married twice. After two children from his first marriage, he and his second wife Dorothea née Duffing had four children, including singer Edda Moser (b. 1938) and cellist Kai Moser (b. 1944). The sons Dietz-Rüdiger Moser (1939-2010), folklorist and literary scholar, and Wolf-Hildebrand Moser (* 1943), opera singer (tenor), come from the connection to Hanna Walch (1910-2004), with whom Hans Joachim Moser does not was married. Hanna Walch was Clara Schumann's great-granddaughter.

writings

Music Lexicon. 2. Edition, Max Hesse Verlag, Berlin 1943. archive.org

together with Fred Quellmalz: folk songs of the 15th century Century from St. Blasien. In: Folk gifts. Offered to John Meier on the occasion of his seventieth birthday, Berlin: de Gruyter 1934, pp. 146-156.

organ romance. A walk through organ issues from the day before yesterday and the day after tomorrow. Ludwigsburg 1961.110 p.

Erwin Kroll (* 3. February 1886 in Deutsch Eylau, East Prussia; † 7 March 1976 in West Berlin) was a German pianist, composer, writer and music critic. Like his friend Otto Besch, Kroll was a tone poet from East Prussia.

Life:Around 1900 Kroll came to Königsberg i. Pr. and attended the royal hoof high school with Otto Besch. He studied philology and music at Albertus University. With a doctoral thesis on ETA Hoffmann, who has always been revered in Königsberg, for a Dr. phil. after his doctorate, he went into teaching. In 1919 he devoted himself entirely to music and continued his studies in Munich, which he had begun with Otto Fiebach and Paul Scheinpflug. There he found an important teacher, especially in Hans Pfitzner. He later dedicated a highly acclaimed book to him. In addition to his studies, Kroll was a répétiteur at the Munich State Opera and secretary of the Hans-Pfitzner-Verein für Deutsche Tonkunst, which Thomas Mann had called for to found. In 1925 Kroll returned to East Prussia and became a music critic for the Hartungsche Zeitung, and from 1930 its features editor. From 1934 he worked in Berlin as a critic and writer on music. After the Second World War he headed the music department of the Northwest German Broadcasting Corporation in Berlin until 1953. With his book, Kroll has set a monument to the (forgotten) importance of Königsberg as a music city.

factories

East Prussian homeland - orchestral work

Violin Sonata in B flat major

Sonatina in F major

East Prussian Dances

Der Adebar - Fantasy on East Prussian folk tunes for large orchestra

Vocal works and song arrangements

Songs for solo voices and choral songs

writings

Music city Koenigsberg

Ernst Theodor Amadeus Hoffman. Breitkopf & Haertel, Leipzig 1923.

Hans Pfitzner. Three masks publishing house, Munich 1924.

The theater. Festschrift for the 25th anniversary of the municipal theater in Dortmund. The Theater, Berlin 1930.

Carl Maria Weber. Athenaion, Potsdam 1934.

Music city Koenigsberg. Atlantis, Freiburg i. brother 1966.

honors

Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany, Cross of Merit on Ribbon (27. January 1956)

Culture Prize of the East Prussian Association (1960)