Collaboration with Albert Schweitzer Foundation

Today, 9th May 2021, Mauricio Nader has started a collaboration with the German foundation "Deutscher Hilfsverein für das Albert-Schweitzer-Spital in Lambarene e.V." (DHV), whose aim is to spread Albert Schweitzer's message around the world. 

Mauricio will contribute with his solo work to the work of this association, through concerts, workshops, masterclasses and publication of new material.

Albert Schweitzer OM (Kaysersberg, Alsace, German Empire, January 14, 1875 - Lambaréné, Moyen-Ogooué, Gabon, September 4, 1965) was a Franco-German doctor, philosopher, theologian and musician, with initially German and then French citizenship (after the incorporation of Alsace to the French Republic), medical missionary in Africa and Nobel Peace Prize in 1952.

As a musician, from an early age he learned to play the piano and following the family tradition - his father and grandfather were organists - he studied to play that instrument, being a student of the French composer Charles-Marie Widor. At the same time, he studied the construction of organs and advocated the preservation of the oldest instruments. His study and interpretation of Johann Sebastian Bach's works for organ is very special.

It was his putting his philosophy of "Reverence for Life" into practice in his own life that earned him the Nobel Prize and worldwide recognition; an attitude he expressed in many ways, most famously by founding and maintaining the Albert Schweitzer Hospital in Lambaréné, now Gabon, in West Central Africa, at that time still French Equatorial Africa.