Alma Moodie

Alma Moodie ( born September 12, 1898 in Rockhampton, † March 7, 1943 in Frankfurt am Main ) was an Australian violinist.

Alma Moody has already appeared as a child in Europe. From 1907 to 1910, she studied with César Thomson in Brussels. In 1913 she made ​​her first appearance with Max Reger, who was one of their sponsors. From 1919 she was a student of Carl Flesch.

Moody was friends with Rainer Maria Rilke and Ernst Krenek, Hans Pfitzner dedicated his B-minor Violin Concerto, which premiered she played in 1924 under the baton of the composer. In the 1930s she performed in a duo with Eduard Erdmann, which was extended by the cellist Karl Maria Schwanberger 1939. From 1937, she led a master class at the Hoch Conservatory in Frankfurt.

The composer Karl Höller was dedicated in 1943 to the memory of Alma Moodie a violin sonata.

• Classical violinist
• Australian musicians
• Born in 1898
• Died in 1943
• Woman