Otto Taubmann Explained

Otto Taubmann (8 March 1859 – 4 July 1929) was a German composer and conductor.

Life

Born in Hamburg, Taubmann was initially a merchant, studied piano, violoncello and composition in Dresden from 1879 to 1882 and made study trips to Paris and Vienna. He worked as a conductor for several years and was the owner of the Freudenberg Conservatory in Wiesbaden from 1886 to 1889. From 1895, he lived in Berlin, first as a theory teacher and music critic (among others for the Berliner Börsen-Courier) and from 1920 to 1925 he was a composition teacher at the Berlin University of the Arts.[1]

Taubmann belonged to the music section of the Prussian Academy of Arts from 1917. His students at the academy included Ludwig Roselius and Walter Draeger among others.[2]

Taubmann's compositional output includes sacred and stage music in addition to Lieder and choral works. In addition to psalm settings and the choral drama Sängerweihe published in 1904 after a libretto by Christian von Ehrenfels, the opera Porzia after Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice was premiered in 1916. Another opera entitled Die missbrauchten Liebesbriefe remained a fragment.

In addition to his own compositions, Taubmann published a large number of arrangements of pieces by other composers, including Heinrich Schütz, Richard Strauss, Jean Sibelius and Antonín Dvořák. The arrangement of his Romance in C op. 42, written in 1909 and republished in 2007, was called "Excellent" by the otherwise very critical Sibelius in a letter to the publisher.[3]

Occasionally, Taubmann used the pseudonym Nambuat.

Taubmann died in Berlin at the age of 70. He found his final resting place on the Stahnsdorf South-Western Cemetery.

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Notes and References

  1. Frank-Altmann: Kurzgefasstes Tonkünstler-Lexikon. Neudruck der Ausgabe von 1936. Wilhelmshaven 1971,
  2. vgl. Zeitschrift Berliner Leben, 10th edition (1905), .
  3. vgl. Sibelius, Jean: Romanze in C op. 42, foreword to Wiederveröffentlichung, Breitkopf & Härtel, Leipzig 2007
  4. https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/165108980 Porzia Oper in 3 Aufz. nach Shakespeares Kaufmann von Venedig
  5. https://web.archive.org/web/20130121110102/http://www.operone.de/komponist/taubmann.html Taubmann on Operone.de