Robert William Otto Allen

Robert William Otto Allen (March 18, 1852 – December 9, 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).

References

• This article was initially translated from the Danish Wikipedia.

Notes

1. "187 (Dansk biografisk Lexikon / I. Bind. Aaberg - Beaumelle)". Project Runeberg. Retrieved 18 November 2015.