Rudi Stephan has been played on NTS shows including Westward Ho! w/ Ashley Wales, with "Liebeszauber" Für Bariton Und Orchester (Nach Einem Gedicht Von F. Hebbel) first played on 25 May 2023.

Rudi Stephan (29 July 1887 Worms, Grand Duchy of Hesse – 29 September 1915), was a German composer of great promise who shortly before the First World War was considered one of the leading talents among his generation.

Stephan was a composition pupil of Bernhard Sekles at the Hoch Conservatory in Frankfurt and of Heinrich Schwartz and Rudolf Louis in Munich, where he settled after completing his studies in 1908. He left only a…