Moriz Violin was born March 30 1879 in Vienna.

He studied at the "Konservatorium der Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde in Wien".
He graduated there in piano 1894, when he was only fifteen (15) years old. One year later ‒ with 16 ‒ he graduated in musical composition.

During these and the following years he was benefitted and encouraged by the personal interest Johannes Brahms bestowed on him.
This great master and man was ‒ unto the end of his life ‒ a great patron of growing youth. He understood to inspire young musicians and he knew to fill them with idealism, so that they would stand during their life as true fighters for Purity of art .

After Brahms death Mr Violin became acquainted with Dr. Heinrich Schenker , the renowned Viennese theorist.
From this acquaintance resulted a friendship which lasted untill the death of Schenker.
This real confraternity was based on artistic and musical convictions and on a deep respect for and a profound knowledge of the works of the great masters. It also resulted in common activities of research in the field of the soul and the spirit of musical genius.

On account of Mr. Violins great successes both as a pianist and as a composer, and much supported by the comments of the most outstanding Viennese critics (among them Dr. Ed. Hanslick) he was appointed leader of an "Ausbildungsklasse" (upper division- class) for piano at the Imperial Academy of Music in Vienna. In this position he worked from 1906 ‒ 1912.
During the world war Mr. Violin was in the Austrian army as "Artillerie Offizier".

After the war he moved to Hamburg where he founded an independent school in which he developed with great success his own ideas in an indisturbed [sic] and thourough [sic] manner.
Besides his productions as a composer, Mr Violin published a pamphlet under the title "Ueber das sogenannte Continuo". This enlightening work deals with the problem of the so called "continuo", that is the "ad libitum accompaniment" which was costumary [sic] in Bach and Haendel and all the other composers, preceeding the Viennese classics.

When Hitler seized power, in 1933, he had to leave Hamburg, and now he had to leave again Vienna.

I am not the only one who considers Mr. Violin as one of the most outstanding German musicians. May I select a few names from the long list of important men, who esteem Mr Violin, so as I do: Ferruccio Busoni, Artur Nikisch, Bruno Walter, Wilhelm Furtwängler.

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Moriz Violin was born March 30 1879 in Vienna.

He studied at the "Konservatorium der Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde in Wien".
He graduated there in piano 1894, when he was only fifteen (15) years old. One year later ‒ with 16 ‒ he graduated in musical composition.

During these and the following years he was benefitted and encouraged by the personal interest Johannes Brahms bestowed on him.
This great master and man was ‒ unto the end of his life ‒ a great patron of growing youth. He understood to inspire young musicians and he knew to fill them with idealism, so that they would stand during their life as true fighters for Purity of art .

After Brahms death Mr Violin became acquainted with Dr. Heinrich Schenker , the renowned Viennese theorist.
From this acquaintance resulted a friendship which lasted untill the death of Schenker.
This real confraternity was based on artistic and musical convictions and on a deep respect for and a profound knowledge of the works of the great masters. It also resulted in common activities of research in the field of the soul and the spirit of musical genius.

On account of Mr. Violins great successes both as a pianist and as a composer, and much supported by the comments of the most outstanding Viennese critics (among them Dr. Ed. Hanslick) he was appointed leader of an "Ausbildungsklasse" (upper division- class) for piano at the Imperial Academy of Music in Vienna. In this position he worked from 1906 ‒ 1912.
During the world war Mr. Violin was in the Austrian army as "Artillerie Offizier".

After the war he moved to Hamburg where he founded an independent school in which he developed with great success his own ideas in an indisturbed [sic] and thourough [sic] manner.
Besides his productions as a composer, Mr Violin published a pamphlet under the title "Ueber das sogenannte Continuo". This enlightening work deals with the problem of the so called "continuo", that is the "ad libitum accompaniment" which was costumary [sic] in Bach and Haendel and all the other composers, preceeding the Viennese classics.

When Hitler seized power, in 1933, he had to leave Hamburg, and now he had to leave again Vienna.

I am not the only one who considers Mr. Violin as one of the most outstanding German musicians. May I select a few names from the long list of important men, who esteem Mr Violin, so as I do: Ferruccio Busoni, Artur Nikisch, Bruno Walter, Wilhelm Furtwängler.

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