Editing Moondog (section)

===Germany===
[[File:Moondog kopf.jpg|thumb|Moondog tomb at the Central Cemetery in Münster, designed by Ernst Fuchs after the death mask]]
Along with his passion for [[Germanic peoples|Nordic culture]], Moondog had an idealised view of Germany ("The Holy Land with the Holy River" — the [[Rhine]]), where he settled in 1974.<ref name="Larkin"/>

Moondog revisited the United States briefly in 1989, for a tribute at the [[New Music America Festival]] in Brooklyn, in which festival director [[Yale Evelev]] asked him to conduct the [[Brooklyn Philharmonic Chamber Orchestra]], stimulating a renewed interest in his music.

Eventually, a young German student<ref>{{cite web|last=Webb |first=Corey |url=http://webbspunideas.blogspot.com/2007/11/moondog-in-new-york.html |title=Webbspun Ideas: Moondog in New York |website=Webbspunideas.blogspot.com |date=2007-11-10 |access-date=2013-08-09}}</ref> named Ilona Goebel (later known as Ilona Sommer) helped Moondog set up the primary holding company for his artistic endeavors<ref>{{cite web|last=Dalachinsky |first=Steve |url=http://www.brooklynrail.org/2008/02/music/outtakes |title=Outtakes |publisher=[[The Brooklyn Rail]] |date=2008-02-06 |access-date=2013-08-09}}</ref> and hosted him, first in [[Oer-Erkenschwick]], and later on in [[Münster]] in [[Westphalia]]. Moondog lived with Sommer's family and they spent time together in Münster. During that period, Moondog created hundreds of compositions which were transferred from Braille to sheet music by Sommer. Moondog spent the remainder of his life in Germany.

On 8 September 1999, he died in Münster from [[heart failure]].<ref>{{Cite news|last=Collins|first=Glenn|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1999/09/12/nyregion/louis-moondog-hardin-83-musician-dies.html|title=Louis (Moondog) Hardin, 83, Musician, Dies|newspaper=New York Times|date=September 12, 1999}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|last=Thurber|first=Jon|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/local/1999/09/20/composer-louis-moondog-hardin-dies/df43df44-ef25-42ca-a306-126eaf332a0f/|title=Composer Louis 'Moondog' Hardin Dies|newspaper=Washington Post|date=September 19, 1999}}</ref> He is buried at the Central Cemetery Münster. His tomb was designed by the artist [[Ernst Fuchs (artist)|Ernst Fuchs]] after the [[death mask]].

He recorded many albums and toured both in the U.S. and in Europe—France, Germany and Sweden.