Carl Attenhofer

Carl Attenhofer (Karl), born at Wettingen, near Baden, Switzerland, May 5, 1837. Composer, pupil of Daniel Elster at Baden, of Kurz at Neufchâtel, and Richter, Pappertiz, Dreyschock, Röntgen, and Scleintiz at the Conservatorium in Leipsic. In 1859 he became musical instructor at Muri (aargau), in 1863 conductor of a male singing society at Rapperswyl, in which capacity he soon won reputation, and assumed the direction of several other societies, removing in 1867 to Zürich, where in 1879 he became organist and musical director fo the Catholic church. He is one of the most distinguished Swiss composers, especially of male choruses, but also of choruses for female, mixed voices, songs, pianoforte pieces, violin studies, and some masses.

Cyclopedia of Music and Musicians by John Denison Camplin, Jr. and William Foster Apthorp (Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1888)