Hans-Erich Riebensahm (24 June 1906 in Königsberg – 15 October 1988 in Berlin) was a German classical pianist and music educator.
Life
As a pupil of Artur Schnabel, Riebensahm was a proven Beethoven player. He often included Paul Hindemith and the forgotten Hans-Georg Burghardt [de] in his program. In 1955, at Königsberg's 700th anniversary celebration in Duisburg he played the Nature Trilogy by Heinz Tiessen and - as world premiere - the Piano Sonata in a Movement by Otto Besch [de]. In 1949 he became professor at the Berlin University of the Arts. There Peter Ronnefeld [de] and Theodor Breu was one of his students. Riebensahm was Liedbegleiter [de] (accompanist) by Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau. He played works by Beethoven, Schumann and Liszt as a soloist between 1956 and 1972 in twelve subscription concerts of the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin conducted by Carl August Bünte [de].
Bibliography
- Hugo Riemann's Musiklexikon [de], 12th edition, vol. 2, p. 504. Mainz 1961
- August Ludwig Degener, Walter Habel: Wer ist wer? [de] Das deutsche Who's Who, volume 16,. Arani, Berlin, 1970, ISBN 3-7605-2007-3, p. 1045.
- Christine Fischer-Defoy: Hannah Arendt: das private Adressbuch 1951–1975. Koehler & Amelang, Leipzig, 2007, ISBN 3-7338-0357-4, p. 187.
References
- Das Ostpreußenblatt (4 June 1955) (PDF; 9,8 MB)
