March 23 - Julius Reubke (The Musical Birthday Series)

Julius Reubke (23 March 1834-3 June 1858) was one of the shortest lived composers to achieve a major reputation.  His organ sonata is still in the repertoire, and his piano sonata is highly respected. 

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Gather Ye Rosebuds

The reason that Reubke

Didn’t write more

Is that he was dead

At age twenty four.

Lucky for us that

On one schönster Morgen,

He sat down and wrote his

Sonata for organ