Swiss composer (1886-1957)

Othmar Schoeck

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Swiss composer (1886-1957)
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Awards Received
Commander's Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany
Member of, past and present

Bavarian Academy of Fine Arts

Othmar Schoeck (1 September 1886 – 8 March 1957) was a Swiss composer 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.