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Grove's dictionary of music and musicians ed. by J. A. Fuller Maitland, 1907
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1publication by Forms Schneider of Senfl's Magnificats in 1532, and Heinrich Fink's Lieder in 1536.
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4OTTAVINO. An octave flute. (See PICCOLO.)
5OTTER, FRANZ JOSEPH, violinist, born at Nandlstadt, Bavaria, 1760, according to the Quellen-Lexikon, or in 1764, according to Fétis, died Sept. 1, 1836, aged seventy-six. Bishop von Freising sent him to Florence, where he became a pupil of Pietro Nardini. After the death of his patron Franz Otter was forced to return to Germany and seek employment. Together with his brother Ludwig, he received an appointment as violinist at the Salzburg Cathedral, with an annual stipend of 200 gulden. He occupied this position from 1803 to 1807, and upon retiring with a pension, settled in Vienna as a teacher and violinist at the Hofkapelle. Reichard's Gothaer Kalender for 1798 states that Otter, in that year, was Konzertmeister at the Vienna Hoftheater, and Musikdirector in 1800. Joseph Haydn's brother, Michael, taught him composition. He wrote several concertos and sonatas for violin, but has left (so far as is known) only one published work, viz.: Nineteen variations on the German air 'Ich bin liederlich,' with accompaniment for a second violin; (Haslinger, Vienna). Amongst Michael Haydn's unpublished songs in the Berlin Museum there is a canon for nine voices by Otter, and in Prince Esterhazy's Library at Eisenstadt there is a canon for seven voices, composed by Otter, to celebrate Joseph Haydn's birthday. This is in manuscript.—Fétis, Biog. des Mus.; Eitner, Quellen-Lexikon.
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8OTTEY, SARAH, MRS., one of the earliest female professional performers on the violin in London. She was born about 1695. Dr. Burney, mentioning her in his History, says: 'This and the preceding year (1721-22) Mrs. Sarah Ottey frequently performed solos at concerts on three several instruments—Harpsichord, bass-viol and violin.'—Dubourg, The Violin; Lahee, Famous Violinists. E. H-A.
10OTTO, ERNST JULIUS, born at Königstein, Sept. 1, 1804; though always musical, was not educated exclusively for music. On the contrary, he passed his 'maturity examination' at Dresden in 1822 with honour, and studied theology for three years at Leipzig. While doing this he worked at music with Schicht and Weinlig. His compositions are of a solid character—oratorios; masses; an opera ('Schloss am Rhein') performed at Dresden, 1838, and another at Augsburg; sonatas; cycles of songs for men's voices, etc. In 1830 he was appointed Cantor at Dresden, a post which he held with honour to himself up till his death, March 5, 1877.
11His brother Franz, a bass singer (born June 3, 1809, died April 30, 1842), and another brother, a tenor, came to England in 1833 as directors of a Part-singing society. G.
13OTTO, GEORG, born about 1544 at Torgau, then in Electoral Saxony, spent the best part of his life from before 1588 to 1619 at Cassel as Capellmeister to the Landgrave of Hesse-Cassel. He was the instructor in composition of the Landgraf Moritz. Otto's published works are: 'Geistliche deutsche Gesenge,' a 5 and 6 (Erfurt, 1588); 'Opus musicum divinum' (Cassel, 1604), in three books, containing motets a 5 to 8 on Latin texts from the Gospel for every Sunday and Festival and other occasions in the Church's year. Among unpublished works in the Library at Cassel are a series of introits for the Church's year a 5, and various Latin psalms and magnificats a 5 to 12.
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16OTTO, JACOB AUGUSTUS, the author of a valuable treatise upon the construction of the violin, in which the mathematical 'rules' of Bagatella are simplified and explained. Born at Gotha in 1762, died at Jena in 1830. An excellent maker and repairer of stringed instruments, he was at one time attached to the court of the Grand Duke of Weimar in that capacity. From time to time his profession required him to visit Halle, Leipzig, Magdeburg, and Berlin, journeys which assisted him in enlarging his remarkable knowledge and judgment of ancient instruments of the violin class. In 1817 his Ueber den Bau und die Erhaltung der Geige und aller Bogeninstrumente is said to have been published by Reinecke in Halle, and an enlarged edition of the same, with the title Ueber den Bau der Bogeninstrumente und über die Arbeiten der vorzüglichsten Instrumentenmacher—published by Bran, in Jena—appeared in 1828. Of this the second edition appeared in 1873 and the third in 1886. In 1833 Longmans brought out T. Fardeley's English translation, and John Bishop's English version entitled Treatise on the Structure and Preservation of the Violin, etc., was published by Robert Cocks in London in 1848 (second edition, 1850; third edition, 1875). The first edition, though often quoted, does not exist, as far as can be ascertained, in any public or private library, but an article by Otto bearing the original title is to be found at p. 3 of vol. i. (1809) of the Neues Magazin aller neuer Erfindungen, Entdeckungen und Verbesserungen (Leipzig). It is mainly an eulogy of Jacobus Stainer. Otto left five sons, all of whom became violin-makers.—Fétis, Biog. des Mus.; Davidson, The Violin; Dubourg, The Violin; Hart, The Violin; Brown, Dictionary of Musicians; Eitner, Quellen-Lexikon.
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19OTTO, MELITTA, née ALVSLEBEN, born Dec. 16, 1842, at Dresden, was taught singing there by Thiele at the Conservatorium, and sang in opera as a light soprano from 1860 to 1873; in 1866 she married Max Otto, commissioner of customs. Her parts comprised Anna in 'Hans Heiling,' Rowena in 'Templer und
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