Otto Joachim (composer)

Otto Joachim, CQ ( born October 13, 1910 in Dusseldorf, † 30 July 2010 in Montreal) was a Canadian composer and violist German origin.

Life

Joachim studied until 1928 at the University of Dusseldorf and then to 1931 in Cologne. In 1934 he fled the Nazis, first to Singapore, then to Shanghai. In 1949 he settled in Montreal. From 1956 he was a member for twenty years at the Montreal Symphony Orchestra and taught at the same time first at McGill University, then at the Montreal Conservatory. It was 1958, the founder and until 1969 also the director of the Montreal Consort of Ancient Instruments; Joachim also in 1955 founded the Montreal String Quartet, and in 1956 his own studio for electronic music - the first private its kind in Canada. His compositions include Illumination II, Tribute to St. Romanus and Contrasts.

In the permanent exhibition of the Museum of Civilization in Hull, there are two paintings by his hand, Triptych and Dodecaphonism, as well as several replicas of Renaissance instruments from his possession.

Discography

• Electroacoustic moments
• Presence II

Movies

• 2001: world travel against his will - the composer Otto Joachim. A film by Gabriele Faust, WDR.