Paul Juon was in many respects a “traveler between the worlds.” Not only geographically and culturally between East and West but also musically between Romanticism and Modernism. Perhaps it was Claus-Christian Schuster, the first pianist of Vienna’s Altenberg Trio, who most successfully characterized Juon’s music, which cannot be assigned to any school or trend, when he wrote: “The shadow of homelessness falls on his works as well as on his life: not a Swiss, not a Russian, not a German; not a Romanticist, not a modern composer, not a folklorist – but yet a bit of all of them, and beyond that, in an engaging manner, a sincere and humanly impressive personality.”
