Wilhelm Rischbieter
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Wilhelm Albert Rischbieter (20 July 1834 – 11 February 1910) was a German violinist, music educator, composer and docent at the royal Hochschule für Musik Carl Maria von Weber Dresden.[1]
Born in Braunschweig, Rischbieter was a student of the composer and violinist Moritz Hauptmann at the Leipzig conservatory.[2] From 1862 to 1900, he taught violin, harmony and counterpoint at the conservatory in Dresden.[2] Notable students from his time there include the Dresden choral conductor and composer Hugo Richard Jüngst and Hermann Vetter, who later became a professor at the same institute.[3] in the Biographisches Lexikon der Oberlausitz Archived 2016-06-23 at the Wayback Machine. Rischbieter published numerous essays on music theory written during his years as a music educator. Several articles by him were published by the Allgemeine musikalische Zeitung und die Neue Zeitschrift für Musik.[4][5]
Rischbieter died in Dresden aged 75.
