Wladimir Vogel (M / Russia, Germany, Switzerland, 1896-1984), composer
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Wladimir Rudolfowitsch Vogel (1896-1984) was a Russian Swiss composer of German descent.
Biography
Wladimir Vogel was born in February 1896 in Moscow [Russia] into a German-Russian family.
He studied in Russia and then in Germany, where in 1929-33 he also taught at the Klindworth-Scharwenka Conservatory. With the rise of Nazism he was forced to leave Germany. After living in France, Belgium and England, he settled in Switzerland in 1939, becoming a Swiss citizen in 1954.
Vogel died June 19, 1984 in Zurich [Switzerland].