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JOSEF GABRIEL RHEINBERGER

17th March 1839 --- 25th December 1901

Josef Gabriel Rheinberger,  was a unusually gifted child who had  acquired considerable fame at the tender age of 5 years old.  It was around 1845
that he started to recived music lessons in theory, pianoforte and organ, he had to have made a special pedal board so that he could play the piano
and organ.  Now around this time or slighty later he was playing as a organist at the Vaduz parish church,  his first composition was performed the
following year. In 1849 he began to studied for a short time with the composer Philipp M. Schmutzer.

It was in 1851 that his father,  who was initially opposed to Josef's  desire to become a professional musician but later relented and allowed him to
enter the Munich Conservatorium.  It was not long after graduating that  he became professor of piano  and of composition at the  same institution
until 1854. Then in 1859 Josef became professor of the theory of music and organ at the conservatory, a position which he held until a few months
before his death in 1901.

The major influences on Rheinberger  style of music composion ranged from  contemporaries such as Brahms to composers from earlier times, such
as Mendelssohn, Schubert etc.  His other talent's was for painting and literature  (especially English and German).  In 1877 he was appointed court
conductor, at the royal chapel.  He was a very distinguished teacher and among his pupils were for example,  William Berwald,  Henry Holden Huss
Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari, and Engelbert Humperdinck, to name just a few.

He was a prolific composer who produce hundred's of compositions as well as oratorios and also religious works for Organ, include's twelve Masses
Requiem and a Stabat Mater.  On 31 December his  life change when his  wife died in 1892,  after suffering a long illness.  A couple of years later he
had also been stuffing from poor health himself and he had to give up the post of Court Music Director.

His output of works include several operas, symphonies, chamber music, Organ works, Masses and choral works.

Last Updated on October 2025
By Steven Ritchie

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(4816)"Etude de Concert, Part of the Intro, Opus.37". Sequenced by Steven Ritchie.

(3056)"Sopranos". Sequenced by Renato Silva.

(3057)"Requiem". Sequenced by Renato Silva.

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