Arthur Johannes Scholz

Arthur Johannes Scholz (1883-1945) was a composer and conductor born in Lemberg, now Lviv. He trained in Goldberg and Vienna and worked as an organist and conductor in Split, Olomouc and Vienna, where he settled in 1911. His output includes operas, orchestral and choral music, and chamber works. In his later years he devoted particular attention to the guitar, writing solo and chamber music in collaboration with the Viennese guitarists Gerta Hammerschmid and Luise Walker. From 1932 he taught choral studies and practical instrumentation at Vienna’s Staatsakademie für Musik und darstellende Kunst, later also teaching melodic construction.