Adolf Rebner

Who was Adolf Rebner?

Adolf Franklin Rebner was an Austrian violinist and violist.

Rebner was a student of Jakob Grün at the Vienna Conservatory, graduating there with first prize in 1891. Having continued his studies in Paris with Martin Pierre Marsick he settled in Frankfurt in 1896 where he was concertmaster at the Frankfurt Opera. He succeeded Hugo Heermann as professor of violin at the Hoch Conservatory and became famous as leader of his string quartet, which toured Germany, France, Spain and England. In 1934 he was forced to leave Germany and moved to Vienna. His son Edward Wolfgang Rebner was an accomplished pianist and accompanist, who settled in the US in 1939.