Hans Moldenhauer

Hans Moldenhauer (December 13, 1906, Mainz – October 19, 1987, Spokane) was a German and American musicologist, archivist, and music educator known for his scholarship on the composer Anton Webern and for collecting and preserving the Moldenhauer Archives with his second wife and assistant, Rosaleen Moldenhauer. He studied music with conductor Hans Rosbaud before immigrating to the United States in 1938. After settling in Spokane, Washington, he founded the Spokane Conservatory of Music in 1942 and went on to teach on the faculty at the University of Washington. The Moldenhauers' holdings were later dispersed to major research libraries in the United States and Europe.

Life and career Hans Moldenhauer was born in Mainz, Germany in 1906. and studied under conductor Hans Rosbaud at the Hochschule für Musik Mainz. he was disturbed to the point of anger by Webern's nationalism during the Nazi era, and Rosaleen suggested he might consider abandoning the project.

Rosaleen died in 1982, and Moldenhauer died in 1987. With the assistance of his widow Mary, The (Paul Sacher Foundation) holds most of the Webern manuscripts in Basel, Switzerland, though a portion of these and the archive's other manuscripts, including Ernest Bloch's Schelomo, are held by the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C., both as a memorial to Rosaleen and in view of Moldenhauer's journey to the United States.