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Rudolf Tobias (29 May 1873 Käina, Hiiumaa – 29 October 1918 Berlin) was an Estonian composer, organist, and choirmaster. He was born the son of Johannes Tobias, the bishop of the church of Käina, a piano tuner, and an organ master. He graduated from the Saint Petersburg Conservatory, where he studied organ with Louis Homilius and composition with Professor Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov. For his thesis, he wrote the cantata John of Damascus.