Eduard Rohde


Eduard Rohde was a German composer and organist. Born in Halle, Germany in 1828, he was a pupil of August Gottfried Ritter, and later a choirmaster at the St. Georgenkirche and singing teacher at the Sophien-Gymnasium in Berlin. Rohde was also a royal music director. Eduard Rohde had a son named Eduard Rohde Jr., also a composer, and died in Berlin in 1883. He wrote piano pieces, motets, part-songs, a sonata, instrumental and vocal works, as well as an elementary textbook for piano. His pupils include Arthur H. Bird.

Works

• Dance of the Dragonflies
• Marionettes
• Album Leaf
• Butterfly Op. 36, No. 8
• 6 Tonbuilder, Op. 50
• Fliegende Blätter, Op. 36
• Fugue in E minor
• Élégie in G minor
• Triolett, Op. 32
• Elfenreigen, Op. 111
• Volks-Lieder, Op. 137
• Zwiegesang, Op. 146, No. 2
• Sommerabend
• Der Blumen Rache
• Schildehorn
• V. sonata