Hermann Alexander Moeck


Hermann Alexander Moeck was a German musicologist and publisher.

Life

Born in Lüneburg, after attending Gymnasium in Celle, Moeck obtained his university entrance qualification in 1942, served in the Kriegsmarine until 1945 and studied musicology, philosophy, art history and ethnology in Göttingen and Münster until 1948. In 1951 he was awarded a doctorate at the Georg-August-Universität Göttingen with the dissertation Ursprung und Tradition der Kernspaltflöten der europäischen Folklore und die Herkunft der musikgeschichtlichen Kernspaltflötentypen. In 1960 Moeck took over the company of his father, which was renamed Moeck Musikinstrumente + Verlag in 1965. At the end of 2002 he retired from the company management.
Moeck died in Celle at the age of 87.

Work

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