Kubin, Rudolph

The son of the double bass player of the city opera. He began to play the cello in an amateur orchestra, since 1924 he studied at the Prague Conservatory with Julius Junek (cello) and Alois Huba (composition). As a student, he composed several plays in the quarter-tone technique under the guidance of the Hub.

After graduating from the conservatory in 1927, he entered the Czech Radio Orchestra under the direction of Otakar Jeremias as a cellist. In 1931 he composed the first opera - the one-act Summer Night ( Czech Letní noc ), intended for radio performance. In 1935 he returned to Ostrava and worked there until the end of his life. He wrote 300 songs in his life. ^[2]

• operas:
  • "Summer Night" (1931)
  • Our Savages (1949)
  • Lumberjacks (1954)
• operettas:
  • “Wife is the heir to the husband” (1930)
  • The Three Musketeers (1931)
  • The Groom of the Prairie (1932)
  • The Circus of Life (1934)
  • "Cavalier" (1935) and others;
• Works for orchestra
  • Symphony (1937)
  • 2 Overtures (1929, 1934)
  • symphonietta (1936)
  • Moravian Rhapsody (1942)
  • Ostrava cycle (1953)
  • dramatic overture "Julius Fucik" (1954)
  • concert for trombone and orchestra (1937)
  • concert for clarinet and orchestra (1939)
  • violin concert (1940)
  • cello concert (1960)
  • string Quartet; cantatas
  • processing Wallachian songs
• music for radio shows and movies; variety works.

• [one]
  • A Brief Biographical Dictionary of Foreign Composers, comp. M. Yu. Mirkin, M.: Soviet Composer, 1968
    • Gregor S., R.Kubin, "Hubebni Rozhledy" 1959 No. 1