Hans Jelmoli (1877 Zürich - 1936 Zürich) has been long forgotten as a composer, but shows up as author of a study about «Ferruccio Busonis Zürcher Jahre» (Zürich 1929) and in the music scientific literatur about the founder of «Neue Klassizität». After his studies at the conservatory of Frankfurt am Main, that was once led by Raff, where Engelbert Humperdinck and Iwan Knorr were his most famous teachers, he worked as opera director in Mainz and Würzburg. In the twenties back in his native city, he worked as music critic, composition teacher and pianist, in his free time he wrote musical drama and songs.      In the selected songs published by Hug in Leipzig and Zürich, you find many pearls of the dialect lyrics by Isabelle Kaiser, Hermann Löns, C. F. Meyer and Rainer Maria Rilke, such as the melancholic verse-song «Häiweh» (Ernst Eschmann) and the «Liedli» that had already been published in 1921, based on a very rare dialect poem of Karl Stamm (1890 - 1919) who in «Der Aufbruch des Herzens» (1919) developed his expressionistic language, which is highly opposite to the late romantic sound world of Hans Jelmoli.
	Walter Labhart
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