Eduard Rohde

Eduard Rohde (25 September 1828 – 25 March 1883) was a German composer and organist. Born in Halle, Germany in 1828, he was a pupil of August Gottfried Ritter, and later a choirmaster at the St. Georgenkirche and singing teacher at the Sophien-Gymnasium in Berlin. Rohde was also a royal music director. Eduard Rohde had a son named Eduard Rohde Jr. (2 May 1856 – 1931), also a composer, and died in Berlin in 1883. He wrote piano pieces, motets, part-songs, a sonata, instrumental and vocal works, as well as an elementary textbook for piano. His pupils include Arthur H. Bird.

Works

• Dance of the Dragonflies

• Marionettes

• Album Leaf

• Butterfly Op. 36, No. 8

• 6 Tonbuilder, Op. 50

• Fliegende Blätter, Op. 36

• Fugue in E minor

• Élégie in G minor

• Triolett, Op. 32

• Elfenreigen, Op. 111

• Volks-Lieder, Op. 137

• Zwiegesang, Op. 146, No. 2

• Sommerabend (op. 50)

• Der Blumen Rache (op. 141)

• Schildehorn (op. 128)

• V. sonata (op. 170)

References

1. https://www.organ-biography.info/index.php?id=Rohde_E_1828

External links

• Heine in der Musik. 6. Komponisten N - R, p. 390