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(b Worms, 29 July 1887; d nr Tarnopol, 29 Sept 1915). German composer. He studied in Frankfurt and Munich. His instrumental works of 1911-13, all called Musik für..., were seen as belonging to a new classical movement for pure, absolute music. His 16 songs (1914) recall Wolf while his only opera (Die ersten Menschen, 1914) looks back to Beethoven and Gluck.
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Rudi Stephan (29 July 1887 Worms, Germany – 29 September 1915), was a German composer of great promise who shortly before the First World War was considered one of the leading talents among his generation.
Stephan was a composition pupil of Bernhard Sekles at the Hoch Conservatory in Frankfurt and of Heinrich Schwartz and Rudolf Louis in Munich, where he settled after completing his studies in 1908. He left only a few works: his liking for pointedly neutral titles along the lines of 'Music for ...' has caused him to be seen as a forerunner of the 'New Objectivity' of the post-war era, but his music is in fact in a hyper-expressive late-Romantic idiom which has more plausibly been seen by some as a kind of proto-Expressionism. His father, a Privy Councillor, was able to finance the performance of his early works, which at first met with incomprehension, but the premiere of his 1912 Music for Orchestra in Worms was a major critical breakthrough. He completed his only opera, Die erste Menschen, shortly after the outbreak of the war, and it was eventually premiered in Frankfurt five years after his death from a bullet in the brain fired by a Russian sharpshooter, at Ghodazkow-Wielki near Tarnopol on the Galician Front.
His complete orchestral works have been recorded by the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra conducted by Oleg Caetani.
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