Dagmar de Corval Rybner

Dagmar de Corval Rybner Barclay (9 September 1890 - 22 July 1965) was a Swiss-German composer, pianist, and teacher who worked and corresponded with Sergei Rachmaninoff. She published and performed under the name Dagmar Rybner.^{[1][2][3][4][5]}

Biography

Rybner was born in Baden to Claudine Pezet de Corval and Dr. Cornelius Rybner, a Danish composer and pianist who eventually chaired the music department at Columbia University. Cornelius  changed the family name from “Rubner” to “Rybner.” Dagmar married the singer John Barclay. They had one daughter and later divorced.^{[1][6][7][8][9]}

Rybner studied music in Karlsruhe, Germany; Neuchatel, Switzerland; and New York. She made her European debut as a pianist playing the Schumann piano concerto under conductor Felix Mottl. After moving to New York, she played a Tchaikovsky piano concerto under conductor Adolf Rothmeyer. Rybner toured as a pianist throughout the United States, appearing at the White House and with the Metropolitan Opera House Orchestra, as well as with orchestras in Boston, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Washington, D.C., and Russia. She also presented duo piano recitals with her father.^{[10][11][6][12]}

Rybner worked as Rachmaninoff’s assistant^[4] and taught at Barnard College, Columbia University and the Curtis Institute of Music.^[1] Eventually, she stopped touring as a pianist to spend more time composing.^[2][13] Her songs were performed by Mary Garden and Claude Cunningham.^[6] Her correspondence is archived in the Serge Koussevitzky Archive at the Library of Congress.^[14] Rybner’s works were published by Breitkopf & Hartel, Carl Fischer Music, Oliver Ditson, Luckhardt & Belder, and G. Schirmer Inc.^{[1][15][16][17]} They include:

Chamber

• works for violin^[18]

Piano

• works for piano^[1]

Vocal

• “A Song” (text by Clinton Scollard)^[19]
• “America” (text by Rollin John Wells)^[15]
• “Au Piano” (text by Jean Lahor; English translation by Theodore Baker)^[20]
• “Bid Me to Live” (text by Robert Herrick)^[16]
• “Chanson de Grandpere” (text by Victor Hugo)^[16]
• “Chinoiserie” (text by Pierre Jules Theophile Gautier)^[21]
• “Cyprian Woman” (Greek folksong; text by Margaret Widdemer)^[20]
• “Gavotte”^[6]
• God Knows Best (for mixed chorus)^[22]
• “In the Desert” (text by Louise Ayres Garnett)^[23]
• “O Rose of All Shiraz”^[24]
• “Pastorale” (text by Sara Teasdale)^[21]
• “Pierrot” (text by Sara Teasdale)^[25]
• “Slav Cradle Song” (text by William Blake)^[21]
• “Swans” (text by Sara Teasdale)^[21]
• “Te souvient il” (text by Jean Richepin)^[26]
• “Waterlily”^[27]

References

1. Cohen, Aaron I. (1987). International encyclopedia of women composers. 2: Sai - Zyb, Appendices (2. ed., revised and enl ed.). New York: Books & Music. p. 607. ISBN 978-0-9617485-1-7.
2. "The Twilight of Romanticism · Yale University Library Online Exhibitions". onlineexhibits.library.yale.edu. Retrieved 2023-09-21.
3. "12 Romances, Op.14 PDF Free sheet music". en.instr.scorser.com. Retrieved 2023-09-21.
4. Walker, Matthew Robert (2011-08-01). Rachmaninoff: The Illustrated Lives of the Great Composers. Omnibus Press. ISBN 978-0-85712-434-0.
5. Stern, Susan (1978). Women composers: a handbook. Metuchen London: the Scarecrow press. p. 145. ISBN 978-0-8108-1138-6.
6. "Dagmar and Cornelius Rybner" (PDF). The AMICA Bulletin. 29 (6): 16. 1992.
7. Overtones. Curtis Institute of Music. 1929.
8. Rybner, Dagmar (24 July 1965). "Deaths". New York Times. p. 21.
9. Rybner, Dagmar (23 April 1922). "Lawyer to Wed Pianiste". New York Times. p. 25.
10. Wier, Albert E. (1938). The Macmillan Encyclopedia of Music and Musicians. Macmillan Company. p. 1592.
11. International Who's who in Music and Musical Gazetteer: A Contemporary Biographical Dictionary and a Record of the World's Musical Activity. Current Literature Publishing Company. 1918.
12. Musical Observer. 1919.
13. Who is who in Radio. Who is who In Radio, Incorporated. 1930.
14. Rybner, Dagmar. "Serge Koussevitzky Archive Guides to Special Collections in the Music Division of the Library of Congress Music Division, Library of Congress Washington, D.C." (PDF). loc.gov. Retrieved 2023-09-23.
15. "America". Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA. Retrieved 2023-09-23.
16. Office, Library of Congress Copyright (1926). Catalog of Copyright Entries. Fourth Series. Copyright Office, Library of Congress. pp. 461, 469, 584.
17. Grove, George (1922). Grove's Dictionary of Music and Musicians. Supplement. Presse. pp. 104, 345.
18. Laurence, Anya (1978). Women of Notes: 1,000 Women Composers Born Before 1900. New York: Richards Rosen Press Inc. p. 73.
19. Stewart-Green, Miriam (1980). Women composers: A checklist of works for the solo voice. A reference publication in women's studies. Boston, Mass: Hall. p. 62. ISBN 978-0-8161-8498-9.
20. Office, Library of Congress Copyright (1922). Catalog of Copyright Entries: Musical Compositions. Part 3. Library of Congress. pp. 450, 471.
21. "Dagmar de Corval Rybner Song Texts | LiederNet". www.lieder.net. Retrieved 2023-09-23.
22. Catalog of Copyright Entries: Musical compositions. Library of Congress, Copyright Office. 1945.
23. The Musical Monitor. Mrs. David Allen Campbell, Publisher. 1919.
24. Musical America. Music Publications, Limited. 1919.
25. "Pierrot". find.slv.vic.gov.au. Retrieved 2023-09-23.
26. Library, Boston Public (1921). Bulletin of the Public Library of the City of Boston. The Trustees.
27. Music News. Music News Corporation. 1925. pp. 10, 13.

External links

• Download free public domain sheet music by Dagmar Rybner