Otto Wagner

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Otto Wagner

Biography

Otto Wagner (22 August 1924, Dehlitz, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany – 30 April 1999) was a German composer, arranger, conductor and performer.

After taking his first music lessons in his native Saxony, Otto Wagner began his studies in 1940 (flute, theory, composition, instrumentation and conducting) in Berlin and Leipzig, among others with Professor Hans Felix Husadel, who brought Wagner into contact with the subtleties of brass music and his interest woke up. After the war he was mainly active as a theater and orchestra musician.

From 1967 he turned to brass music in particular, for which he worked as an orchestra conductor, lecturer, consultant and above all as a composer and arranger. His collaboration with the Rundfunk-Blasorchester Leipzig made him internationally known, and it was not least his dignified arrangements of works of Viennese music that made him a respected expert in this genre.


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