Othmar Schoeck

Othmar Schoeck

Othmar Schoeck (1 September 1886[1] – 8 March 1957) was a Swiss Romantic classical composer, opera composer, musician, and conductor.

He was known mainly for his considerable output of art songs and song cycles, though he also wrote a number of operas, notably his one-act Penthesilea, which was premiered at the Semperoper in Dresden in 1927 and revived at the Lucerne Festival in 1999. He wrote a handful of instrumental compositions, including two string quartets and concertos for violin (for Stefi Geyer, dedicatee also of Béla Bartók's first concerto), cello and horn.

  1. ^ Walton, Chris (2009). Othmar Schoeck. Life and Works. Eastman Studies of Music. Rochester, NY: University of Rochester Press. p. 13. ISBN 978-1-58046-300-3. ISSN 1071-9989.