LÜTHOLD, ERNST

Ernst Lüthold became one of the best-known Swiss march composers primarily because of the popularity of his March “Onward.” He was born in Baar, south of Zürich, in 1904 and became interested in music as a boy by listening to the municipal bands in the area, many of which had been founded in the middle of the nineteenth century. He attended primary and secondary schools in Kilchberg and learned to play piano and violin during that time. In 1922...