Otto Singer

Otto Singer ( born July 26, 1833 in Sora, today Wilthen; † January 3, 1894 in New York City ) was a German musician and composer.

Singers training initially took place in Dresden, and later in Leipzig, which he left in 1865. After a short stay with Franz Liszt in Weimar in 1867 he went to New York.

In 1873 he worked in Cincinnati as an assistant music director Theodore Thomas for the first May Musical Festival, for which he 1876, the cantata The Pilgrim Fathers wrote. In addition, he composed the festival ode to mark the opening of the Music Hall. He remained until 1892 at the Cincinnati College of Music, and finally back to New York, where he died.

He was a faithful follower of Franz Liszt and Richard Wagner, both as a composer and as a pianist. He conducted several choirs and composed in addition to the works above a piano concerto and several sonatas for piano. He also wrote fantasies about Wagner operas ( published by Edition Peters, Leipzig) and wrote a piano score by Eugen d' Albert Opera lowlands.

Otto Singer is the father of Otto Singer, Jr. (* 1863, † 1931), who worked as an arranger and composer.