Otto soul

Title page of Otto Seele's drum school. It can be assumed that the person depicted is Otto's soul.

Otto Bernhard Seele (born June 15, 1856 - † January 4, 1935 in Leipzig ) was a percussionist , composer and music publisher in Leipzig.

Otto Seele worked as a percussionist and timpanist in numerous orchestras, from August 15, 1891 to 1918, he was a member of the Leipzig Theater and Gewandhaus Orchestra . He composed and published musical works and wrote instrumental schools for timpani , xylophone and snare drum . In Leipzig he ran a specialist shop for percussion instruments, orchestral equipment and utensils for artists and music clowns. He also worked as a music publisher for drums.

Places of work

In his timpani school from 1895 Otto Seele mentioned the following engagements:

• Cassel , Concert Chapel Schaubs-Garten.
• Halle a / S Städtische-Kapelle, Wilh. Hall.
• Berlin , 2nd Woltersdorff Theater Opera House .
• Elberfeld , concert band, Jul. Langenbach.
• Frankfurt a. M. Victoria Theater, Jantsch .
• Bad-Reichenhall , spa chapel, G. Paepke .
• Munich , Symphony Chapel, Leithauser-Milano.
• Nice (France) and
• Lugano (Italy) Kapellmeister Müller Berghaus and Hans Sitt . Private chapel of S. Excellenz Baron Paul von Derwies
• Hamburg , Concert Chapel, Alb. Parlow .
• St. Petersburg (Russia) , Concert Chapel Zoological Garden, H. Rachfall.
• Berlin , Concert Chapel, B. Bilse .
• Bad Kissingen , Kur-Kapelle, Ed. Reimann.
• Würzburg , City Theater Chapel, Ed. Reimann
• Marienbad , spa chapel, carpenter.
• Breslau , Stadt-Theater-Kapelle, G. Brandes (from September 15, 1888)

Works

Own works

• School for xylophone, tubaphone and vibraphone, 1st edition Leipzig 1890, Zimmermann ; 15th edition 1933.
• The Carneval v. Venice f. Xylophone m. Puffs. Output in A u. C. Leipzig 1893, soul.
• Les Fauvettes. Concertino f. 2 xylophones w. Puffs. Leipzig 1893, soul.
• Souvenir de Wroclaw. Concert polka f. Xylophone m. Puffs. Leipzig 1893, soul.
• A piece of virtuoso. Polka mazurka f. Xylophone m. Puffs. Leipzig 1893, soul.

• Album f. Xylophone. m. Puffs. 2 booklets. Leipzig 1894, carpenter.
• New complete xylophone school m. German, English u. Russian text. Leipzig 1894, carpenter.
• Uno Mescuglio. Potpourri f. Xylophone m. Orch. / M. Puffs. Leipzig 1894, soul.

• Timpani school for self-teaching. Text in German, English u. Russian. Leipzig 1895, carpenter, also Breitkopf & Härtel , C. F. Peters .

• Album f. Xylophone m. Puffs. 2 booklets. Leipzig 1898, carpenter.

• Theoretical, practical and easy-to-understand school for snare drums, Verlag O. Dietrich, Leipzig

As a publisher

• Gustav Peter : Souvenir de Cirque Renz. Gallop f. Xylophone m. Orch. Leipzig 1894.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c} Hans-Rainer Jung: The Gewandhaus Orchestra . Faber and Faber, Leipzig 2006, ISBN 3-936618-86-0 .
2. ^ Hans-Joachim Nösselt: The Gewandhausorchester: Origin and development of an orchestra. Koehler & Amelang, 1943, page 254 ( limited preview in the Google book search).
3. ↑ ^{a b c} Rafael Lukjanik: Didactic literature in the field of classical percussion after 1950. Frankfurt (Main), Univ., Diss., 1999, DNB 976394324 , urn : nbn: de: hebis: 30-15048 ( electronic resource , PDF, 5 , 3MB)
4. ↑ Otto Seele's own representation in an edition of Souvenir de Cirque Renz, 25th edition, holdings of the Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania State Library, signature Mus 14.027
5. ↑ Schaubs-Garten: A popular garden bar in Wolfsschlucht 23 in Kassel. German social papers . 1898 ( limited preview in Google Book search) -
6. ↑ Baron Paul von Derwies; † around 1880; a rich Russian with a German name and Dutch ancestry; lived alternately in Nice and Lugano. David Mason Greene: Greene's biographical encyclopedia of composers . 2007, ISBN 9780385142786 , p. 890 ( limited preview in Google Book Search).
7. ↑ The Berliner Philharmoniker later emerged from the Bilse Chapel
8. ^ ^{A b} Eduard Reimann: Würzburg theater director
9. ↑ ^{a b c d} Friedrich Hofmeister: Musical literary monthly report. December 1893, page 510, Music for Percussion Instruments Hofmeister XIX Online
10. ^ ^{A b c} Friedrich Hofmeister: Musically literary monthly report. November 1894, page 478 Hofmeister XIX Online
11. ↑ Friedrich Hofmeister: Musical literary monthly report. September 1895, page 350 Hofmeister XIX Online
12. ↑ Friedrich Hofmeister: Musical literary monthly report. September 1898, page 390 Hofmeister XIX Online
13. ↑ Fr. Pazdirek: Universal Manual of musical literature of all peoples Volume 28, page 551. Online . Rafael Lukjanik wrongly assigns the school in his work to the Zimmermann publishing house 1898–1903.
14. ^ Friedrich Hofmeister: Musical-literary monthly report. November 1894, page 478, Hofmeister XIX Online

Web links

• Works by and about Otto Seele in the catalog of the German National Library