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PETER MARTIN CORNELIUS RÜBNER, ALSO RYBNER, AMERICAN RUBNER (COPENHAGEN, OCTOBER 26, 1853 – NEW YORK CITY, JANUARY 21, 1929)

Rübner studied from January 1869 to December 1871 at the Royal Conservatory in Copenhagen with Niels Wilhelm Gade and Johan Christian Gebauer (1808-1884). In 1880 he became Felix Mottl’s assistant at the Grand Ducal Baden court orchestra in Karlsruhe, and from around 1884 to 1886 he also worked as the Grand Ducal Baden court pianist in Baden-Baden. In 1892 he became director of the Philharmonic Society and teacher at the Grand Ducal Conservatory in Karlsruhe. In the empire he gained fame , among other things, because he set the poem Our Emperor by the poet Otto Julius Bierbaum to music , which was a hit with the public. He also wrote numerous tribute pieces for the Baden dynasty. Like Felix Mottl and Louis Brassin, Rübner created transcriptions for piano based on Richard Wagner’s operas. In 1905, Columbia University in New York appointed Rübner as Edward MacDowell’s successor, where he taught as a professor until 1919.

TRACKLIST

3019 WAGNER-RYBNER – Paraphrase on Themes from Opera “Die Meistersinger”

3021 WAGNER-RYBNER – Siegfried’s Funeral March from”Götterdämmerung”

3022 WAGNER-RYBNER – Paraphrase onThemes from Opera”Tristan und Isolde”

3023 WAGNER-RYBNER – Wotan’s Farewell; Magic Fire Music

5930 AMPICO DONIZETTI-LISZT-RYBNER – Fantaisie on “Lucia di Lammermoor”