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Don V Moses

(1936-2025)

Don V Moses was born December 21, on the masses of Joseph Haydn. He was the
1936, in Garden City, Kansas, and passed founding director of the Classical Music Fes-
away peacefully March 12, 2025, at his home tival in Eisenstadt, Austria, a position he held
in Surprise, Arizona. He earned his bachelor’s from 1976 to 2000. Both the city of Eisenstadt
degree in music education from Fort Hays and the state of Burgenland recognized his
State University, and both a master of music work in promoting the city and its connection
and doctorate of music from Indiana Uni- to Haydn, and it has become one of the lon-
versity. During his tenure at Indiana, he also gest-running music festivals in Europe. In 2008
served as assistant professor of music among he published, along with Robert W. Demaree,
the conducting faculty from 1964 to 1973. In The Masses of Joseph Haydn, based on this exten-
1973 he became the director of choral activi- sive research and performance experience. For
ties at the University of Iowa. Don remained those interested in learning more about Don
there until 1986, when he took the position of Moses and his conducting, research, and work
director of the School of Music at the Univer- at the University of Illinois, the Sousa Archives
sity of Illinois. Among his published works are and Center for American music holds the Don
handbooks on choral conducting. V Moses Music and Papers (1960-2000).
Don was best known for his lifelong work

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