Eduard Rohde

Eduard Rohde (25 September 1828 – 25 March 1883) 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. (2 May 1856 – 1931), 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.^[1][2]

Works

• Dance of the Dragonflies
• Album Leaf
• 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 (op. 50)
• Der Blumen Rache (op. 141)
• Schildehorn (op. 128)
• V. sonata (op. 170)