Rudolf Leberl

Rudolf Leberl (born April 25, 1884 in Hochsemlowitz , Bohemia , † September 3, 1952 in Sulzbach an der Donau ) was a German-Bohemian composer and music teacher.

Life

Rudolf Leberl was born as the son of Franz Leberl and his wife Franziska, geb. Mühlbauer born. After completing the teachers' seminar, he studied at the Universities of Prague and Vienna. As a celebrated interpreter of Beethoven's piano music, he was able to secure an enthusiastic audience back then. For more than 20 years he worked at the teacher training institutes in Budweis and Prachatitz . In 1945 he was arrested by the Czechoslovak authorities, but was able to flee the following year and finally found a new home in Sulzbach an der Donau.

He composed symphonic works, chamber music, and music for piano and wind instruments. He is best known for his compositions for the guitar. In addition, he dealt with the recording, preservation and revival of folk songs from the Bohemian Forest .

Works (selection)

• Ten songs for guitar based on poems by Justinus Kerner (Lwv 22)
• Spielmannslieder for voice and guitar (Lwv 28)
• String Quartet in B flat major ("The Bavarian") (Lwv 1343)
• Quartet in F major for oboe, clarinet, french horn, bassoon (Lwv 1345)
• String Quartet in C major ("Bohemian Forest Quartet") (Lwv 1346)

literature

• Thomas Englberger: Systematic-chronological directory of the works of Rudolf Leberl . Sudeten German Music Institute, Regensburg 1994.

Web links

• Literature by and about Rudolf Leberl in the catalog of the German National Library
• Rudolf Leberl in the Bavarian Musicians' Lexicon Online (BMLO)
• About his life on the website Kohoutí kříž / 's Hohnakreiz (Czech) of the South Bohemian Scientific Library (Jihočeská vědecká knihovna) in Budweis. Retrieved February 22, 2019.
• Press release of the district of Upper Palatinate : An almost forgotten composer is being played again ( Memento from February 21, 2019 in the Internet Archive )