Ferdinand Rebay

Ferdinand Rebay (born June 11, 1880 in Vienna , Austria-Hungary ; died November 6, 1953 there ) was an Austrian composer, pianist, choir director and teacher.

Life

Ferdinand Rebay was a choirboy at Heiligenkreuz Abbey . He completed a music degree at the Conservatory of the Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde , which he graduated with honors in 1904. From 1904 to 1920 he was choirmaster of the Vienna Choir Association and from 1915 to 1920 of the Wiener Schubertbund . From 1921 to 1938 and from 1945 to 1946 he taught at the music academy. After the annexation of Austria in 1938 he was released. Most of his musical legacy has been in the Heiligenkreuz Abbey since the late 1970s and was initially ignored there until 2014.

Ferdinand Rebay's grave

His final resting place is in the Vienna Central Cemetery (Gr. 69B, R. 23, No. 27)

literature

Austrian music lexicon . Volume 4. (Ed. Rudolf Flotzinger), Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 2005, ISBN 3-7001-3046-5 .
Kay Less : Between the stage and the barracks. Lexicon of persecuted theater, film and music artists from 1933 to 1945 . With a foreword by Paul Spiegel . Metropol, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-938690-10-9 , p. 407.

Web links

Ferdinand Rebay in the Heiligenkreuz Abbey Collection

Individual evidence

↑ http://www.rebay.at/pcrfrm12.htm
↑ Heiligenkreuz Abbey lifts treasures from the music archive , kathweb.at - Catholic Press Agency Austria, October 3, 2014. Retrieved October 17, 2014.

personal data
SURNAME	Rebay, Ferdinand
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Austrian pianist, composer and choir director
DATE OF BIRTH	June 11, 1880
PLACE OF BIRTH	Vienna
DATE OF DEATH	November 6, 1953
Place of death	Vienna

[1] ttp://www.rebay.at/pcrfrm12.htm

[2] Heiligenkreuz Abbey lifts treasures from the music archive , kathweb.at - Catholic Press Agency Austria, October 3, 2014. Retrieved October 17, 2014.