Robert William Otto Allen
Robert William Otto Allen (18 March 1852 – 9 December 1888) was a Danish pianist, composer and conductor.[1] He was the brother of conductor Georg Frederik Ferdinand Allen.
He trained at the Royal Academy of Music as a student of Edmund Neupert. From the late 1870s he was a music teacher in Aarhus and in 1885 he became organist at Århus Cathedral. He was a frequent contributor to the Aarhus music scene both as a pianist, as conductor and as a composer.
Notable compositions include Koncertouverture i G-Dur (1881), Ouverture til Dina (1886) and Løft dit hoved, du raske gut (1883).
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- This article was initially translated from the Danish Wikipedia.
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- ^ "187 (Dansk biografisk Lexikon / I. Bind. Aaberg - Beaumelle)". Project Runeberg. Retrieved 18 November 2015.
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