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RHEINBERGER, JOSEPH GABRIEL (1839-19or)

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Originally appearing in Volume V23, Page 233 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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RHEINBERGER, See also:JOSEPH See also:GABRIEL (1839-19or) , See also:German composer, was See also:born at Vaduz, See also:Liechtenstein, on the 17th of See also:March 1839. His musical abilities were manifested so See also:early that he was appointed organist of the See also:parish See also:church when he was but seven years old. A three-See also:part See also:Mass composed by him was. performed in the following See also:year. He was taught at first by Philipp Schmutzer, See also:choir director at See also:Feldkirch; he entered the See also:Munich Conservatorium in 1851, and remained there till 1854 as a See also:pupil of See also:Professor E. Leonhard for piano, Professor See also:Herzog for See also:organ and J. J. Maier for See also:counterpoint. After leaving the school he had private lessons from See also:Franz Lachner, and was appointed a professor in the conservatorium in See also:succession to Leonhard in 1859. In 186o he became professor of See also:composition; and was appointed organist of the Michelskirche, a See also:post he held till 1866. In 1877 he succeeded Wullner as Hofkapellmeister, and from that See also:time his See also:attention was largely devoted to sacred See also:music. His compositions include See also:works of importance in every See also:form, from the operas See also:Die sieben Raben (Munich, 1869) and Turmers Tochterlein (Munich, 1873) and the See also:oratorio Christoforus, op. 120, to the well-known quartet for piano and strings in E See also:flat, op.

38, the nonet for See also:

wind and strings, op. 139, and the seventeen organ sonatas, which form notable additions to the literature of the See also:instrument. He died in See also:November 1901.

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