Eduard Rappoldi

Eduard Rappoldi (between 1871 and 1877)

Eduard Rappoldi, real name Eduard Rappold^[1] (21 February 1839 – 16 May 1903) was an Austrian violinist and composer.

Life[]

Born in Vienna, Rappoldi played piano and violin as a child, and was already performing his own compositions at the age of seven. He was a pupil of Leopold Jansa and Josef Böhm and from 1854, a student at the Konservatorium der Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde in Vienna with Georg Hellmesberger Sr..^[2]

Rappoldi was a member of the orchestra of the Vienna Court Opera until 1861. After a time as concert master of the Deutschen Oper in Rotterdam he was Kapellmeister in Lübeck, Stettin, and Prague. In 1871 he joined the faculty at the Königliche Hochschule für Musik in Berlin and played viola in the Joachim Quartet. In 1876 Rappoldi left Berlin for Dresden, where he was concert master of the Dresden Königliche Kapelle until 1898, and königlichen-sächsischen Professor at the Dresden Conservatory (today the Hochschule für Musik Carl Maria von Weber).

Rappoldi composed two string quartets, small symphonies and piano violin sonatas as well as about 30 songs.^[3]

In 1870, he met the pianist Laura Kahrer (1853-1925), whom he married four years later. They had five children, one of which was the violinist Adrian Rappoldi (1876–1948).^[4]

Rappoldi died in Dresden at the age of 64.^[5]

References[]

External links[]

• Literature by and about Eduard Rappoldi in the German National Library catalogue

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