Hans Otte
Illustration — Hans Günther Franz Otte Hans Günther Franz Otte (3 December 1926 – 25 December 2007) was a German composer, pianist, radio promoter, and author of many pieces of musical theatre, sound installations, poems, drawings and video art. From 1959 to 1984 Otte served as music director for Radio Bremen. Beginning in the early 1960s, he frequently presented experimental American minimal music composers in his Bremen radio festival Pro Musica Nova, including John Cage, David Tudor, Terry Riley, and La Monte Young.
Hans Otte
- Born
- 1926 · Plauen.
- Died
- 2007 · Bremen.
- Nationality
- Germany
- Occupation
- composer · pianist · writer · violinist · director · musician
- Movements
- minimalist music
- Education
- Hochschule für Musik Franz Liszt Weimar · State University of Music and Performing Arts Stuttgart · Yale University · Hochschule für Musik Saar
- Teachers
- Hermann Abendroth · Paul Hindemith · Walter Gieseking · Johann Nepomuk David
- Honours
- Rome Prize of the German Academy Villa Massimo
- Languages
- German
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Born at Plauen in 1926, died in Bremen in 2007.
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Hans Otte was a composer, musician, director and violinist, born on 3 December 1926 in Plauen and died on 25 December 2007 in Bremen. Both events are recorded by the Bibliothèque nationale de France and the Deutsche Nationalbibliothek.
Hans Otte studied at Hochschule für Musik Franz Liszt Weimar, State University of Music and Performing Arts Stuttgart and Yale University. Training under Hermann Abendroth, Paul Hindemith and Walter Gieseking is recorded. The recorded working language is German. Employment is recorded with Berlin Philharmonic, Villa Massimo and Radio Bremen. Distinctions recorded are Rome Prize of the German Academy Villa Massimo.
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Plauen.
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Bremen.
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scholarly publication
- 100mal Niedersachsen. Kirche und Kultur, hg. v. Hans Otte/Ronald Uden, Zeitschrift der Savigny-Stiftung für Rechtsgeschichte: Germanistische Abteilung, 2013
Scholarly · Crossref registry · 2013
- Kloster Loccum. Von Hans Otte, Geschichte und Erinnerung in Niedersachsen und Bremen, 2021
Scholarly · Crossref registry · 2021
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- “Hans Otte”, English Wikipedia, consulted as further reading
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- Wikidata, structured authority record Q327040: Hans Otte
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- 1.https://www.agendalx.pt/events/event/hans-otte-sound-of-sounds/ Hans Günther Franz Otte
- 2.Hans Otte. Weserburg.
- 3.Ahmels, Ingo. Hans Otte : Klang der Klänge = Sound of sounds. Schott Music. 2006. 978-3-79570-586-2.
- 4.Hans Otte – Klang der Klänge / Sound of Sounds. Schott Music.
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