Otto Kitzler

German cellist and conductor

Otto Kitzler (18 March 1834 – 6 September 1915) was a German cellist and conductor. He is noted for being the form and orchestration teacher of the Austrian composer Anton Bruckner from 1861 to 1863.^[1]

Kitzler led the Linz theatre orchestra and was responsible for introducing Bruckner to the music of Richard Wagner as well as other 19th-century composers.^[1] The sketches and compositions that Bruckner prepared for Kitzler are found in the Kitzler-Studienbuch, which "due to its inaccessibility...has achieved little notoriety in the musical world".^[2]

Kitzler wrote a funeral music "In Memorial of Anton Bruckner" (Trauermusik "Dem Andenken Anton Bruckners"), re-orchestrated by Gerd Schaller (2012) and recorded with the Philharmonie Festiva for Profil Edition Günter Hänssler.^[3]

References

^ ^a ^b Paul Hawkshaw; Timothy L. Jackson. "Bruckner, Anton". Grove Music Online. Oxford University Press. Retrieved 19 September 2014.
^ Hawkshaw, P. (1 January 1998). "A Composer Learns His Craft: Anton Bruckner's Lessons in Form and Orchestration, 1861–63". The Musical Quarterly. 82 (2): 336–361. doi:10.1093/mq/82.2.336.
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