As the music director of the Wiesbaden Symphony Orchestra, August Vogt (who later went by the name Carl August Vogt) conducted the premieres of several of Heinz Moehn’s orchestral works in 1938. In a letter of support, he writes that Moehn “belongs among the strongest talents of the present generation” [“zu den stärksten Begabungen der heutigen Generation gehört”]. Based on his experiences conducting Moehn’s works, Vogt declares that Moehn’s compositional style “combines a natural mastery of technique with an extraordinary wealth of imaginative and supple musical ideas, and an absolutely clear, clean, honest and sincere manner of expression that comes from the heart, which marks his music with the stamp of ‘written with the inmost conviction.’” [“Mit der selbstverständlichen Beherrschung des technischen Rüstzeuges verbinden sich bei ihm ein auβerordentlichen Reichtum phantasievoller und plastischer musikalischer Gedanken und eine absolute klare, saubere, und ehrliche, aus dem Herzen kommende Ausdrucksweise, die seiner Musik den Stempel des ‘aus innerster Überzeugung geschriebenen’ aufdrückt.”]

Vogt’s later positions included music director of the Staatsorchester Rheinische Philharmonie (1946-1951), and music director of the Baden-Baden Philharmonic Orchestra (1953-1971). As a conductor, he also recorded works including Leif Thybo’s Concerto for Violin (1969).

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Sources:

Emborg, Jens Laurson et al. Danish Violin Concertos Vol 5 - Andersen, Holmboe, Emborg, etc. South Jutland Symphony Orchestra. Carl von Garaguly, Carl-August Vogt, Alf Sjoen. Danacord 469/70, 1997, compact disc.

“Historie 1900-1999.” Philharmonie Baden-Baden. 1999. https://philharmonie.baden-baden.de/geschichte-4/

Meißner, Richard. “Wiesbaden.” Allgemeine Musikzeitung 65 (23 September 1938): 570.

Vogt, August. August Vogt to Herrn Verwaltungsrat Schäfer, 28 March 1939. Letter of Reference.

“Wiesbaden.” Zeitschrift für Musik 105 (December 1938): 1396-97.