Blanche Honegger Moyse

Blanche Honegger Moyse, ( born September 23, 1909 in Geneva, † February 10, 2011 in Brattleboro ) was a Swiss- American violinist and conductor.

Life

At the age of eight years Honegger was taught by Adolf Busch. As a 16 -year-old, she won first prize in the violin at the Geneva Conservatoire de Musique. A subsequent performance of Beethoven's Concerto for Violin and Orchestra in D major with the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande under Fritz Busch was enthusiastically received by the audience. In 1939 she married the French flutist and composer Louis Moyse; from the marriage were born four children. Together with her husband at the piano and her father Marcel Moyse on the flute was the violinist that since the 1930s, frenetically celebrated Moyse Trio.

After the Second World War Blanche Honegger came with her family first to Argentina, but then settled in Brattleboro in the U.S. state of Vermont, where she, among others, together with her husband, her mentor Adolf Busch and his son Rudolf Serkin 1951, the Marlboro School of Music and the Marlboro Music Festival founded. In 1952 she founded the Brattleboro Music Center to life.

After a disease of the elbow joint Honegger had the mid- 1960s, playing the violin to give up and focused henceforth on the baton. My particular interest was the choral works of Johann Sebastian Bach, with Louis Moyse it is also one of the initiators of the New England Bach Festival. Even as a 78 -year-old she ran in 1987 in New York's Carnegie Hall Bach's Christmas Oratorio. She counted in the United States, Japan, France and Switzerland are among the most significant connoisseurs of the music of Johann Sebastian Bach.