Composer, conductor, singing-teacher, singer with guitar, born in Mexico. His parents were of Swiss nationality. He was educated at the Germany (Hambourg), became private scholar of Hugo Riemann, studied at the conservatories of Sondershausen and Wiesbaden and with Friedrich Hegar in Zürich. After studying he lived in Berlin and sinche 1923 in Zürich. (Rainer Stelle, 2009)