Rudolf Dittrich

Rudolf E. Dittrich ( born April 25, 1861 in Biala, Galicia, today Bielsko -Biała, † February 16, 1919 in Vienna ) was an Austrian musician.

The Austrian Dittrich learned since childhood piano, violin and organ. After his training in Wroclaw and at the Conservatory of the Society of Friends of Music in Vienna, from which he graduated in 1882, he gave concerts.

In 1888 he became the artistic director, was appointed to the School of Music Tokyo, now part of the Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music. In 1894 he returned to Austria, was court organist in 1901 and 1906 a professor at the Academy of Music in Vienna.

Rudolf Dittrich was thus the first established names Western musicians in Japan.

His wife Petronilla born of chamber ( born September 15, 1860 † 4 January 1891 in Tōkyō ) was until her untimely death at the music school also operates Tokyo.

His grandson is the Japanese actor June Negami.

Works

  • Nippon Gakufu: six Japanese folk songs = six Japanese popular songs, collected and arranged for the piano. Leipzig; Brussels; London; New York: Breitkopf & Härtel in 1895.
  • Rakubai ( Falling plum blossoms ). Leipzig and London, 1895.
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