Eduard Rohde
Eduard Rohde (25 September 1828 – 25 March 1883) was a German composer and organist. Very little is known about his life, but according to sources, he was born in Halle, Germany in 1828. A pupil of August Gottfried Ritter, he was a choirmaster at the St. Georgenkirche and singing teacher at the Sophien-Gymnasium in Berlin. Rohde was also a royal music director. He wrote an elementary textbook for piano. Sources have also said that Rohde had a son named Eduard Rohde, Jr. (2 May 1856 – 1931), who was also a composer, and died in Berlin in the year 1883. Rohde composed piano pieces, motets, part-songs, a sonata, instrumental and vocal works.[1][2]
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 (op. 50)
• Der Blumen Rache (op. 141)
• Schildehorn (op. 128)
• V. sonata (op. 170)