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b. Semlin, 29.11.1859 d. Berlin, 7.10.1925

Teacher: Joseph Joachim, at the Berlin Hochschule, from 1878.

Professional Appointments

• Teacher, Berlin Hochschule, 1888.
• Professor, Berlin Hochschule, 1900.

Moser suffered from a "nervous complaint of the arm" (E. van der Straeten), which prevented him from achieving a performing career, so he concentrated on teaching, becoming Joachim's principal assistant in Berlin, and collaborating with him in producing many publications, most notably the three-volume Violinschule of 1905. He also published a biography of Joachim, edited a collection of letters between Brahms and Joachim, and, after Joachim's death, produced "Methodik des Violinspiels" (Leipzig, 1920) and "Technik des Violinspiels" (Leipzig, 1925).

• In addition to editions editions published solely under his own name are works published jointly with Joseph Joachim, including those in the Joachim/Moser Violinschule, published by Simrock in 1905. Some of the joint editions published by Peters later appeared with only Moser's name on the title page. This seems to have occurred after Hitler's rise to power as part of the Nazi's deliberate Arianisation policy.

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