Otto Dütsch

Otto Johann Anton Dütsch (born May 25, 1823 in Copenhagen ; † April 23, 1863 in Frankfurt am Main ) was a Danish composer, conductor, organist, choir director, répétiteur and pedagogue who worked in St. Petersburg for most of his short career .

Life

He was the son of Joachim Dütsch, who worked in the Danish Ministry of Finance, but also as a music teacher at the Institute for the Blind. As a five-year-old Otto Dütsch was taught by Giuseppe Siboni at the Copenhagen Conservatory . In 1840 he went to Dessau to be taught there for three years. He then traveled to St. Petersburg , where he worked as a music teacher. In 1852 he became a choirmaster and organist at the imperial theater in St. Petersburg, where he was also appointed professor of music theory in 1862 . He died in 1863 on a trip to Frankfurt am Main .

The best-known of his works is the opera The Croatian , which was successfully performed in St. Petersburg in 1860; In 1866, excerpts from it were also played in Copenhagen at the Euterpe Music Society . In addition, he mainly wrote songs and piano music .

His son Georg Dütsch (1857-1891) worked as a conductor in Russia.

Works (selection)

• Overture to The Military Boy
• The tight shoes (operetta)
• The Croatian woman (opera in 4 acts, premiered in St. Petersburg in 1860)
• In the village (operetta, premiered 1859 in St. Petersburg)
• The Battle (Drama Music)
• Dmitrij Donskoj ( incidental music)

literature

• Otto Dütsch . In: Carl Frederik Bricka (Ed.): Dansk biografisk Lexikon. Tillige omfattende Norge for Tidsrummet 1537-1814. 1st edition. tape 4 : Clemens – Eynden . Gyldendalske Boghandels Forlag, Copenhagen 1890, p. 386-387 (Danish, runeberg.org ).

Web links

• List of stage works by Otto Dütsch based on the MGG in Operone