About Theobald Rehbaum
Lived 1835 – 1918 (aged 82). Theobald Rehbaum was a German composer, translator, writer, librettist and libretto.
Theobald Rehbaum (17 August 1835 – 2 March 1918) was a German violinist, librettist and composer, especially of operas.
Born in Berlin, Rehbaum grew up there and sang as a boy in the Royal . He studied violin and composition with Friedrich Kiel, and composition also with Hubertus Rios. Rehbaum composed several operas and choral works, but was more successful as a librettist, writing librettos for Bernhard Scholz. He also wrote a Bratschenschule zum Selbstunterricht für Violinisten (viola method for self-instruction for violinists) and an autobiography titled Erlebtes und Erstrebtes. He died in Berlin.
Works Operas Don Pablo (Dresden, 1880) Das steinerne Herz (Magdeburg, 1885) Turandot (Berlin, 1888) Oberst Lumpus (Wiesbaden, 1892) Die Eingeschriebenen Der Goldschmied von París
Orchestral Der Muse Sendung for soprano and orchestra
Literature Enciclopèdia Espasa volum núm. 50, pàg. 318
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