*1908 Kaiserslautern - †1982 Frankfurt am Main
From 1958 until 1976, Philipp Mohler was the director of the Musikhochschule (Academy of Music) in Frankfurt am Main, which was to widen its academic scope to become the Staatliche Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst (University of Music and Performing Arts) in the early 1970s. During his 17-year rectorship, Mohler founded an opera chorus school, a drama school, a dance class and a conducting class. For the next two years, until 1978, he taught composition.
Mohler writes in an essay: „My work as a composer is rooted in tradition (Schumann, Reger, Joseph Haas) and owes a debt to modernity (Hindemith, Stravinsky, modern French composers) in equal measure. In my more recent compositions, I have employed some of the principles of serialism, although in a free and wholly non-doctrinaire way.”
His compositions are available from music publishers, such as Gerig, Hochstein, Müller, Schott, and Sikorski.