Hans-Erich Riebensahm
Hans-Erich Riebensahm (24 June 1906 in Königsberg – 15 October 1988 in Berlin) was a German classical pianist and music educator.
Life[]
As a pupil of Artur Schnabel, Riebensahm was a proven Beethoven player. He often included Paul Hindemith and the forgotten in his program. In 1955, at Königsberg's 700th anniversary celebration in Duisburg he played the Nature Trilogy by Heinz Tiessen and - as world premiere - the Piano Sonata in a Movement by .[1] In 1949 he became professor at the Berlin University of the Arts. There and was one of his students. Riebensahm was (accompanist) by Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau. He played works by Beethoven, Schumann and Liszt as a soloist between 1956 and 1972 in twelve subscription concerts of the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin conducted by .
Bibliography[]
- Hugo Riemann's , 12th edition, vol. 2, p. 504. Mainz 1961
- August Ludwig Degener, Walter Habel: Das deutsche Who's Who, volume 16,. Arani, Berlin, 1970, ISBN 3-7605-2007-3, p. 1045.
- Christine Fischer-Defoy: Hannah Arendt: das private Adressbuch 1951–1975. Koehler & Amelang, Leipzig, 2007, ISBN 3-7338-0357-4, p. 187.
References[]
- ^ Das Ostpreußenblatt (4 June 1955) (PDF; 9,8 MB)
External links[]
- 1906 births
- 1988 deaths
- Musicians from Königsberg
- German classical pianists
- Male classical pianists
- Classical accompanists
- Berlin University of the Arts faculty
- German music educators
- 20th-century classical pianists
- 20th-century German male musicians