MORING, KARL JOHAN
(1832–1868)> COMPOSER · VOICE TEACHER · CHORAL CONDUCTOR
MORING, KARL JOHAN (Nov. 20, 1832, Kalvola–Mar. 6, 1868, Helsinki), composer of small solo songs and choral works, voice teacher, choral conductor, one of the first to win public stipends for music study at Leipzig Conservatory. Moring first studied violin in Helsinki, then piano with organist Rudolf Lagi, and then at two different times, from 1856 to 1858 and from 1860 to 1861, studied in Leipzig, where one of his teachers was theorist and composer Ernst Friedrich Richter (1808–79). After…