Kathinka Rebling

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Kathinka Rebling (* 1941 in The Hague ) is a German violinist and musicologist .

Life

Memorial plaque on the house, Puschkinallee 41, in Eichwalde

Her parents, the artist couple Lin Jaldati and Eberhard Rebling , met in 1937 in the Netherlands, where Rebling had emigrated before the Nazis . She received her first piano and violin lessons in Amsterdam. In 1952 the family moved to the GDR . From 1955 to 1959 she continued her violin studies with Werner Scholz at the orchestra and choir school of the German University of Music .

From 1959 to 1964 she studied violin with Galina Barinova and Jurij Jankelewitsch at the Tchaikovsky Conservatory in Moscow . From 1964 to 1967 she studied at the Art History Faculty in Moscow, where she took on an artistic and scientific aspirant . In 1974 she was awarded a Dr. phil. PhD. From 1986 to 1989 she studied musicology at the Humboldt University in Berlin . For over 30 years she has been teaching violin and methodology at the "Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy" University of Music and Theater in Leipzig and the "Hanns Eisler" University of Music in Berlin .

Since the 1960s she has devoted herself to folk songs and the artificial music of national minorities. In the 1980s she also performed Yiddish music together with her parents and her sister Jalda Rebling (vocals) on international stages.

Kathinka Rebling has published numerous scientific and methodological articles. In 1995 she published the original of Carl Flesch's posthumous work The High School of Fingering for the first time. She has given concerts in almost every country in Europe as well as in Israel, China, Cuba and the USA. Guest professorships have taken Kathinka Rebling to Beijing, Vila Seca and repeatedly to Vilnius. She is a member of the jury of numerous national and international competitions.

Former students of Kathinka Rebling were and are active in leading orchestras in Germany (including concert masters) - so u. a. in the Gewandhausorchester Leipzig, the Staatskapelle Berlin, in Bayreuth and Stuttgart.

In 1999 she was at the University of Applied Sciences Lausitz to Honorary Professor of Sorbian ordered music and music history. There she is president of the Institute for West Slavonic Music Research

Publications (selection)

  • with Bert Greiner: Music historiography and national minorities in Germany - Using the example of Sorbian music history. In: A musicological paradigm shift? Documentation of the international conference of the University of Oldenburg Oldenburg 2000
  • Why Sorbian Music History Today? In: Letopis 2000
  • Fates, confessions, detours. In: Aspects of the Berlin string tradition Carl Flesch and Max Rostal (eds.), Universität der Künste Berlin, Berlin 2002
  • On the interrelationships between oratorio and opera with Korla Awgust Kocor and Georg Friedrich Händel. The relationship between both composers and the genres of work. In: In the competition of values. Sorbian language, culture and identity on the way into the 21st century Bautzen, 2003
  • I. International Conference on Artificial Sorbian Music (Ed.), Peter Lang GmbH, Frankfurt 2001
  • Contributions to Slavic music in Central Germany with Bert Greiner (Ed.), Peter Lang GmbH, Frankfurt 2004
  • with Bert Greiner Ed. of the series: Contributions to West Slavic Music Research , Peter Lang GmbH, Frankfurt

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