Kathinka Rebling (1941–2020) was a German/Dutch violinist and

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Life

Rebling was born in The Hague. Her parents, the artist couple Lin Jaldati and Eberhard Rebling, had met in 1937 in the Netherlands, where Rebling had emigrated because of the Nazis. Her mother and aunt,

Janny Brandes-Brilleslijper Marianne Brandes-Brilleslijper (24 October 1916 – 15 August 2003), known as Janny, was a Dutch Holocaust survivor and one of the last people to see Anne Frank alive. She is the sister of singer Lin Jaldati (born Rebekka Brilleslijper; 1912 ...

, were the first to report about the death of

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. Her sister

Jalda Rebling Jalda Rebling (born 1951) is a German hazzan. A year after birth, she and her parents moved to East Germany in 1952. Her parents survived the Holocaust, and Rebling's mother and aunt, Janny Brandes-Brilleslijper, were the first to tell Otto Frank ...

is a

hazzan A ''hazzan'' (; , lit. Hazan) or ''chazzan'' (, plural ; ; ) is a Jewish musician or precentor trained in the vocal arts who leads the congregation in songful prayer. In English, this prayer leader is often referred to as a cantor, a term al ...

. She received her first piano and violin lessons in Amsterdam. In 1952, the family moved to the DDR. From 1955 to 1959, she continued her violin studies with Werner Scholz at the orchestra and choir school of the

Hochschule für Musik "Hanns Eisler" ' (, plural: ') is the generic term in German for institutions of higher education, corresponding to ''universities'' and ''colleges'' in English. The term ''Universität'' (plural: ''Universitäten'') is reserved for institutions with the right to ...

Berlin. From 1959 to 1964, she studied the violin with Galina Barinova and Yuri Yankelevich at the

Moscow Conservatory The Moscow Conservatory, also officially Tchaikovsky Moscow State Conservatory () is a higher musical educational institution located in Moscow, Russia. It grants undergraduate and graduate degrees in musical performance and musical research. Th ...

. From 1964 to 1967, she studied at the Faculty of Arts in Moscow, where she took over an artistic and scientific

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. In 1974, she was awarded a doctorate Dr. phil. in Moscow. From 1986 to 1989, she studied musicology at the

Humboldt University of Berlin The Humboldt University of Berlin (, abbreviated HU Berlin) is a public research university in the central borough of Mitte in Berlin, Germany. The university was established by Frederick William III on the initiative of Wilhelm von Humbol ...

. For over 30 years, she taught violin and methodology at the

University of Music and Theatre Leipzig The University of Music and Theatre "Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy" Leipzig () is a public university in Leipzig, Saxony, Germany. Founded in 1843 by Felix Mendelssohn as the Conservatorium der Musik (Conservatory of Music), it is the oldest univ ...

and the

. Since the 1960s, she has devoted herself to

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and artificial music of national minorities. In the 1980s she also performed Yiddish music together with her parents and her sister

(singing) on international stages. Rebling has published numerous scientific and methodological contributions. In 1995, she published

Carl Flesch Carl Flesch (born Károly Flesch, 9 October 1873 – 14 November 1944) was a Hungarian classical violinist and teacher. Flesch’s compendium ''Scale System'' is a staple of violin pedagogy. Life and career Flesch was born in Moson (now part of ...

's posthumous work ''Die hohe Schule des Fingersatzes'' for the first time in the original. She has given concerts in almost all European countries as well as in Israel, China, Cuba and the USA. Guest professorships took her to Beijing, Vila Seca and repeatedly to Vilnius. She is a jury member of numerous national and international competitions. Former students of Rebling were and are active in leading orchestras of the Federal Republic of Germany (also as concertmasters) - such as the Gewandhausorchester Leipzig, the Staatskapelle Berlin, in Bayreuth and Stuttgart. In 1999, she was appointed honorary professor for Sorbian music and music history at the

Brandenburg University of Technology The Brandenburg University of Technology Cottbus–Senftenberg (, BTU) was founded in 1991 and is a technical university in Brandenburg, Germany with campuses in Cottbus and Senftenberg. The university has 185 professors, 640 additional academic ...

. There, she is president of the Institute for West Slavic Music Research e.V.

Publications

* with Bert Greiner: ''Musikgeschichtsschreibung und nationale Minderheiten in Deutschland – Am Beispiel der sorbischen Musikgeschichte.'' In ''Musikwissenschaftlicher Paradigmenwechsel? Dokumentation der internationalen Fachtagung der Universität Oldenburg'' Oldenburg 2000 * ''Warum sorbische Musikgeschichte heute?'' In ''Letopis 2000'' * ''Schicksale, Bekenntnisse, Umwege.'' In ''Aspekte der Berliner Streichertradition'' Carl Flesch und Max Rostal (ed.), Universität der Künste Berlin, Berlin 2002 * ''Zu den Wechselbeziehungen Oratorium-Oper bei Korla Awgust Kocor und Georg Friedrich Händel. Das Verhältnis beider Komponisten zu den Werkgattungen.'' In ''Im Wettstreit der Werte. Sorbische Sprache, Kultur und Identität auf dem Weg ins 21. Jahrhundert'' Bautzen, 2003 * ''I. Internationale Konferenz zur artifiziellen sorbischen Musik'' (ed.), Peter Lang GmbH, Frankfurt 2001 * ''Beiträge zur slawischen Musik in Mitteldeutschland'' mit Bert Greiner (ed.), Peter Lang GmbH, Frankfurt 2004 * with Bert Greiner editor of the series ''Beiträge zur westslawischen Musikforschung'', Peter Lang GmbH, Frankfurt

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Rebling, Kathinka German classical violinists German women violinists German women musicologists 20th-century German musicologists Academic staff of the Hochschule für Musik Hanns Eisler Berlin 1941 births Living people Musicians from Berlin Moscow Conservatory alumni Dutch emigrants Immigrants to East Germany German people of Dutch-Jewish descent Anne Frank Humboldt University of Berlin alumni