Jost Raba

Jost Raba (born August 17, 1900 in Freising ; † February 12, 2000 ) was a German violinist and music teacher .

Life

Raba was born in Freising in 1900 as the son of a sales representative and his wife. He attended grammar school in Augsburg and studied at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich . From 1917 to 1920 he was tutored by Johann Slunicko in Augsburg. From 1920 to 1925 he studied violin with Alexander Petschnikoff and Felix Berber at the Academy of Music in Munich.

He then became a teacher for violin and chamber music at the municipal conservatory in Augsburg. He was also active as a soloist and chamber musician. a. in the Raba Quartet (1924–1934) and in the Strub Quartet (1934–1938). From 1932 to 1935 he worked as a freelancer. In 1935 he became first concertmaster with the orchestra of the German broadcaster . In 1942 he took on a full-time teaching position or professorship at the State University of Music in Berlin . In 1946 he took over a professorship at the State University of Music in Munich. His students included u. a. Willi Leininger .

Raba, Roman Catholic , was married and lived in Murnau-Hechendorf . His son Peter Raba (* 1936) is a photographer.

Fonts (selection)

Fundamental violin technique. A collection of master studies with contributions from the violin method . Edited with Franz Moser. Hieber, Munich 1953.

literature

Hedwig and Erich Hermann Mueller von Asow (eds.): Kürschner's German Musicians Calendar 1954 . 2nd edition of the German Musicians' Lexicon, de Gruyter, Berlin 1954.
Erich H. Müller (ed.): German Musicians Lexicon . W. Limpert-Verlag, Dresden 1929.

Web links

Jost Raba in the Bavarian Musicians' Lexicon Online (BMLO)
Literature by and about Jost Raba in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

^ Jürgen Stegmüller: The string quartet. An international documentation on the history of string quartet ensembles and string quartet compositions from the beginning to the present (= source catalogs for music history . Volume 40). Noetzel, Wilhelmshaven 2007, ISBN 978-3-7959-0780-8 , p. 200.
^ Jürgen Stegmüller: The string quartet. An international documentation on the history of string quartet ensembles and string quartet compositions from the beginning to the present (= source catalogs for music history . Volume 40). Noetzel, Wilhelmshaven 2007, ISBN 978-3-7959-0780-8 , p. 227.

personal data
SURNAME	Raba, Jost
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German violinist and music teacher
DATE OF BIRTH	17th August 1900
PLACE OF BIRTH	Freising
DATE OF DEATH	February 12, 2000

[1] Jürgen Stegmüller: The string quartet. An international documentation on the history of string quartet ensembles and string quartet compositions from the beginning to the present (= source catalogs for music history . Volume 40). Noetzel, Wilhelmshaven 2007, ISBN 978-3-7959-0780-8 , p. 200.

[2] Jürgen Stegmüller: The string quartet. An international documentation on the history of string quartet ensembles and string quartet compositions from the beginning to the present (= source catalogs for music history . Volume 40). Noetzel, Wilhelmshaven 2007, ISBN 978-3-7959-0780-8 , p. 227.