Julius Reubke

Friedrich Julius Reubke (23 March 18343 June 1858) was a German composer, pianist and organist associated with the school of Romanticism. A pupil of Franz Liszt, his small œuvre includes the Sonata on the 94th Psalm in C minor, renowned as one of the finest organ works in the romantic repertoire. Biography Born in Hausneindorf on 23 March 1834, a small village in the region of the Harz Mountains, he was the eldest son of organ and piano builder Adolf Reubke (1805-1875). Of Julius’s five siblings, two brothers, Emil (1836–1884) and Karl (1840–1860), worked with their father; Emil became a partner in 1860 and owned the company from 1872. His brother Otto (1842–1913) was also a pianist, organist and composer; he prepared the Sonata on the 94th Psalm for its first publication in August 1871. Otto settled in Halle, where he was a professor at the University of Halle, and became its director in 1892. There were also two sisters, Meta and Alma. Reubke’s first musical instruction was in Quedlinburg with Hermann Bönicke (1821–1879). He moved to Berlin in April or October 1851, where he continued his musical education at the conservatory there, which had been founded in November 1850 by Theo