Wilhelm Karl Rust

Wilhelm Karl Rust (born April 29, 1787 in Dessau ; † April 18, 1855 there ) was a German pianist and organist .

Life

Wilhelm Karl Rust was a son of the violinist and composer Friedrich Wilhelm Rust . He was considered a child prodigy and performed publicly at the age of ten. Rust studied philosophy in Halle (Saale) from 1805 to 1806 . In 1807 he came to Vienna , where he frequented the pianist Dorothea von Ertmann and taught Maximiliane Brentano, the gifted daughter of Beethoven's friend Antonie Brentano . In this way he also got to know Beethoven himself, who commented very positively on Rust's piano playing. He wrote several letters to his Dessau relatives about his encounters with the composer. From 1819 to 1827 Rust was employed as an organist in the Reformed City Church in Vienna.

His nephew Wilhelm Rust was one of his students .

Individual evidence

^ Günther Eisenhardt: Dessau, city of music . Kamprad, Altenburg 2006, ISBN 3-930550-45-8 , p. 32.
↑ See Klaus Martin Kopitz , Rainer Cadenbach (Ed.) And a .: Beethoven from the point of view of his contemporaries in diaries, letters, poems and memories. Volume 2: Lachner - Zmeskall. Edited by the Beethoven Research Center at the Berlin University of the Arts. Henle, Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-87328-120-2 , pp. 756-758.
^ Klaus Hehn: Music in the Reformed City Church . In: Peter Karner (Hrsg.): The evangelical community HB in Vienna . Deuticke, Vienna 1986, ISBN 3-7005-4579-7 , p. 119.
↑ See also Martin Zenck: The Bach Reception of the Late Beethoven. On the relationship between music historiography and reception historiography of the “classical” . Steiner, Stuttgart 1986, p. 152.

personal data
SURNAME	Rust, Wilhelm Karl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German pianist and organist
DATE OF BIRTH	April 29, 1787
PLACE OF BIRTH	Dessau
DATE OF DEATH	April 18, 1855
Place of death	Dessau

[1] Günther Eisenhardt: Dessau, city of music . Kamprad, Altenburg 2006, ISBN 3-930550-45-8 , p. 32.

[2] See Klaus Martin Kopitz , Rainer Cadenbach (Ed.) And a .: Beethoven from the point of view of his contemporaries in diaries, letters, poems and memories. Volume 2: Lachner - Zmeskall. Edited by the Beethoven Research Center at the Berlin University of the Arts. Henle, Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-87328-120-2 , pp. 756-758.

[3] Klaus Hehn: Music in the Reformed City Church . In: Peter Karner (Hrsg.): The evangelical community HB in Vienna . Deuticke, Vienna 1986, ISBN 3-7005-4579-7 , p. 119.

[4] See also Martin Zenck: The Bach Reception of the Late Beethoven. On the relationship between music historiography and reception historiography of the “classical” . Steiner, Stuttgart 1986, p. 152.