Otto Singer
Otto Singer (born July 26, 1833 in Sora , † January 3, 1894 in New York City ) was a German musician and composer .
Life
Singer's training took place first in Dresden , later also in Leipzig , which he left in 1865. After a short stay with Franz Liszt in Weimar , he went to New York in 1867 .
In 1873 he worked in Cincinnati as assistant to the musical director Theodore Thomas for the first May Musical Festival , for which he composed the cantata The Pilgrim Fathers in 1876 . He also composed the Festival Ode for the opening of the Music Hall . He stayed at the Cincinnati College of Music until 1892, eventually returning to New York, where he died.
He was a devoted supporter of Franz Liszt and Richard Wagner , both as a composer and as a pianist. He headed several choral societies and composed a piano concerto as well as several sonatas for piano in addition to the works mentioned above. He also wrote fantasies about Wagner operas (published by Edition Peters, Leipzig).
Otto Singer is the father of Otto Singer junior (1863–1931), who worked as an arranger and composer, and of the art historian Hans Wolfgang Singer .
literature
- E. Douglas Bomberger (Ed.): Brainard's Biographies of American Musicians. Greenwood Publishing Group, Westport CT 1999, ISBN 0-313-30782-2 , pp. 253-255 ( limited preview in Google Book Search).
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| SURNAME | Singer, Otto |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German musician and composer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 26, 1833 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Sora |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 3, 1894 |
| Place of death | New York City |