title: Hans-Erich Riebensahm
text: # Hans-Erich Riebensahm
  
  Hans-Erich Riebensahm (24 June 1906 in Königsberg – 15 October 1988 in Berlin) was a German classical pianist and music educator.
  
  ## Life
  
  As a pupil of Artur Schnabel, Riebensahm was a proven Beethoven player. He often included Paul Hindemith and the forgotten Hans-Georg Burghardt [de] in his program. In 1955, at Königsberg's 700th anniversary celebration in Duisburg he played the Nature Trilogy by Heinz Tiessen and - as world premiere - the Piano Sonata in a Movement by Otto Besch [de]. In 1949 he became professor at the Berlin University of the Arts. There Peter Ronnefeld [de] and Theodor Breu was one of his students. Riebensahm was Liedbegleiter [de] (accompanist) by Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau. He played works by Beethoven, Schumann and Liszt as a soloist between 1956 and 1972 in twelve subscription concerts of the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin conducted by Carl August Bünte [de].
  
  