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Rita Steblin | |
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 Steblin at the grave of Franz Schubert in Währing, Vienna, June 2012 | |
| Born | April 22, 1951 Chilliwack, British Columbia, Canada |
| Died | September 3, 2019 (aged 68) Vienna, Austria |
| Occupation | Musicologist |
| Education | PhD University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign |
| Subject | Music |
| Notable works | History of Key Characteristics; Die Unsinnsgesellschaft |
Rita Katherine Steblin (April 22, 1951 – September 3, 2019)[1][2] was a musicologist, specializing in archival work combining music history, iconography and genealogical research.
Steblin was born in Chilliwack, British Columbia, Canada; she died in Vienna, Austria. She was the daughter of Sergei and Renata Steblin, a co-founder of Richmond Baptist Church.[3]
After obtaining degrees in Vancouver, Toronto and Urbana, Illinois, and studying at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna, Steblin worked in Canada (mainly in Vancouver) and since 1991 in Vienna first at the Internationales Franz-Schubert-Institut and then as an independent researcher on Ludwig van Beethoven, Franz Schubert and social life in late eighteenth and early nineteenth-century in Austria (including Hungary and Bohemia).
- ^ Rita Katherine Steblin, 22 April 1951 – 3 September 2019 – In Memoriam, Arbor Memorial
- ^ Dr Rita Steblin, obituary, Figures of Speech
- ^ "Remembering the life of Renata STEBLIN". vancouversunandprovince.remembering.ca. Retrieved 2023-02-05.