Rudi Stephan (July 29 1887 Worms, Germany - September 29 1915), was a German composer of great promise who shortly before World War I was considered one of the leading talents among his generation. Stephan was a pupil of Bernhard Sekles in Frankfurt and of Heinrich Schwartz and Rudolf Louis in Munich, where he settled after completing his studies in 1908. Wikipedia
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