He was born in the family of a teacher in Zvolenská Slatina on 6 December 1872. Already in his childhood he learned to play the piano and the organ. He graduated from the teacher's institute in Kláštor pod Znievom and passed the state examinations in music at the Hungarian Royal Academy in Budapest. He worked as an organist and professor of music in Jagr, Veľký Varadin, Čurgov and Kláštor pod Znievom.
In 1908 he settled in Prešov and became a professor of music and Slovak at the Hungarian Royal State Teachers' Gymnasium. From 1919 Moyzes was the first Slovak administrator of this school and chairman of the administrative committee of the Šariš County. In 1920 he was one of the founding members of the local branch of the Slovak Matrix. At the same time, he was an administrator and professor at the town music school and in 1921-1929 also its director.
Moyzes established himself as a successful composer, concert artist, choirmaster and conductor of secular and church choirs. He was a pioneer of realistic tendencies in Slovak music and a forerunner of Slovak musical modernism. He composed Missa solemnis in C, Missa in D minor, Little Highland Symphony, Ctibora, Christmas Carol, Orphans, The Forest Maiden, The Devil's River and the orchestral composition Our Slovakia.
He wrote several textbooks for Slovak schools: a music-theoretical music book, a school songbook for Slovak kindergartens and folk schools, and a small school of singing. He arranged Slovak folk songs, especially from the surroundings of his native Zvolen and from Šariš. He died in Prešov on 2 April 1944 and is buried in the local cemetery. One of the elementary art schools is named after him.
Source: Regional Library P. O. Hviezdoslav in Prešov; Micro-project.
Photo source: Author Presov Slovakia 1227.JPG: Ing.Mgr. Mathuzalem - Presov Slovakia 1227.JPG, CC BY 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=16691032
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