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.
Aimed at the pianist, composer, writer and music critic Erwin Kroll (1886-1976) in Berlin.
Thanks for a birthday present including a telegram.
Signed "[always you] Hans Joachim Moser."
Condition: Card bent and punched 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 extin Kroll (source: wikipedia):
Hans Joachim Moser (*25. May 1889 in Berlin; † 14. August 1967 ibid) was a German musicologist, composer, singer and writer.
Life: Moser was the son of the music professor Andreas Moser (1859–1925). He graduated from the Berlin humanistic Bismarck High School in 1907. He studied music history (including with Gustav Jenner and Robert Kahn), German and philosophy in Marburg, Berlin and Leipzig and 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 the First World War as a lieutenant, completed his habilitation 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 was Carl Thiel's successor 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, as director of the State Academy, given advantages to students with whom he had intimate relationships: “He had those who knew about it removed from the academy.”
Despite the existing admission ban, he was released with effect from January 1st. Admitted to the NSDAP in 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. Under his aegis, the Reichsstelle also awarded contracts for the “Aryanization” of the oratorios by George Frideric Handel from 1940 onwards. In the period from 1938 to 1940, Moser also wrote for the SS newspaper Germanien. Since 1944 he has published in Rosenberg's magazine Music in War.
Moser received a professorship at the University of Jena in 1947, but was dismissed after two months because of his work in the Propaganda Ministry. From 1950 to 1960, Moser worked as director of the Municipal Conservatory in Berlin-West. 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 published 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 pictures of life. His music lexicon went through four editions by 1955. Whose 2. Edition from 1943[7] is strongly permeated by National Socialist ideas (people are marked as (j.) or (hj.) in accordance with the Nuremberg racial laws; Offenbach is said to have created effects with the instinct of his race; Mahler's 10 symphonies were grossly overestimated in pro-Jewish terms and contained banal inventions and meaningless lengths). In the 3rd ed. of the music lexicon (1951) such attributions are removed again. However, the life pictures (Reclam 1958) show his continued ethnic thinking, for example in the article on Mozart: “In the southern, foreign-influenced world of Salzburg (from where thousands of people-conscious Protestants had recently been expelled) he gradually acquired German sentiments and contributed to the world reputation of our music decisive factor.” Furthermore, the book The Music of the German Tribes (1957) was published, in the tradition of the Germanist Josef Nadler. Moser was the new editor 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 Berlin in mid-August 1967 at the age of 78. The burial took place in the state-owned Heerstrasse cemetery in what is now the Berlin-Westend district. The grave has not been preserved.
Family
Moser was married twice. After two children from his first marriage, he and his second wife Dorothea née. Duffing had four children, including the singer Edda Moser (* 1938) and the cellist Kai Moser (* 1944). The sons Dietz-Rüdiger Moser (1939–2010), folklorist and literary scholar, and Wolf-Hildebrand Moser (* 1943), opera singer (tenor), come from the relationship with Hanna Walch (1910–2004), with whom Hans Joachim Moser did not was married. Hanna Walch was the great-granddaughter of Clara Schumann.
Fonts
Music lexicon. 2. Edition, Max Hesses Verlag, Berlin 1943. archive.org
together with Fred Quellemalz: folk songs of the 15th century. Century from St. Blasien. In: Folklore gifts. John Meier presented on his seventieth birthday, Berlin: de Gruyter 1934, pp. 146–156.
Organ romance. A walk through organ questions from the day before yesterday and the day after. 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 an East Prussian composer.
Life:Around 1900 Kroll came to Königsberg i. Pr. and attended the Royal Hufengymnasium 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, he received his Dr. phil. received his doctorate, he went into teaching. In 1919 he turned 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 an accompanist at the Munich State Opera and secretary of the Hans Pfitzner Association for German Music, which Thomas Mann had called for to be founded. In 1925 Kroll returned to East Prussia and became music critic for the Hartungsche Zeitung, and from 1930 onwards it was its features editor. Since 1934 he worked in Berlin as a critic and music writer. After the Second World War he headed the music department of the Nordwestdeutscher Rundfunk in Berlin until 1953. With his book, Kroll has created a monument to the (forgotten) importance of Königsberg as a music city.
factories
East Prussian homeland - orchestral work
Violin Sonata in B major
Sonatina in F major
East Prussian dances
The Adebar - fantasy about East Prussian folk tunes for large orchestra
Vocal works and song arrangements
Songs for solo voices and choir songs
Fonts
Music city Koenigsberg
Ernst Theodor Amadeus Hoffmann. Breitkopf & Härtel, Leipzig 1923.
Hans Pfitzner. Three Masks Verlag, Munich 1924 .
The theater. Festschrift for the 25th anniversary of the Dortmund Municipal Theater. The theater, Berlin 1930.
Carl Maria Weber. Athenaion, Potsdam 1934 .
Music city Königsberg. Atlantis, Freiburg i. Br. 1966.
Honors
Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany, Cross of Merit on ribbon (27. January 1956)
Cultural Prize of the East Prussian State Team (1960)