Otto Wolf (composer)

Otto Wolf (born December 27, 1849 in Bernburg (Saale) , † April 29, 1917 in Maastricht ) was a Dutch composer , conductor and conservatory director of German descent.

Life

Louis Carl Otto Wolf was born on December 27, 1849 as the son of Andreas Wolf and his wife Wilhelmine, nee. Gessner was born in Bernburg an der Saale. He received his musical training from Theodor Kullak (piano) and Friedrich Kiel (composition) in Berlin in the early 1870s. He also studied violin from 1870 to 1872 with Brahms friend Joseph Joachim at the Royal Academic University of Music in Berlin .

Otto Wolf got his first job as a violinist at the Mecklenburg-Schwerin court orchestra . His further life took him to Heilbronn , where he was the first city music director from 1876. Here he met his future wife Marie Oechsle and his daughter Clara Auguste Emma was born in 1879 and his son Cuno in 1882. In 1883 the family moved to Maastricht in the Netherlands, where Otto Wolf became director of the newly founded conservatory and conductor of the Maastricht orchestra , which was also newly established . In 1884 his second daughter Mina Helena Elsa was born here and in 1899 he took Dutch citizenship. Otto Wolf died on April 29, 1917 at the age of 67 in Maastricht.

Works (selection)

• 4 symphonies
• Air for string orchestra op.67
• Concert overture for harmony music op.27
• Concert Overture in D minor for orchestra op.38
• Mourning Sounds for Orchestra or Piano (1889)

Literature / sources

• Preface , in: Otto Wolf: Air op. 67 for string orchestra. Score , Ascheberg (Holstein) (Edition Claus Woschenko) 2019, pp. I – II.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Foreword , in: Otto Wolf: Air op. 67 for string orchestra. Score , Ascheberg (Holstein) (Edition Claus Woschenko) 2019, pp. I-II.

Web links

• Otto Wolf at Edition Claus Woschenko

Sound samples

• Air for string orchestra op.67
• Concert Overture in D minor for orchestra op.38
• Concert overture for harmony music op.27
• Mourning Sounds for Orchestra (1889)