Ion Nonna Otescu

Ion Nonna Otescu (15 December 1888 – 25 March 1940) was a Romanian composer and head of the Bucharest Conservatory (now the National University of Music) from 1918 until 1940.

He was born in Bucharest and died there at the age of 51, having played an influential role in the musical life of his native country.

Otescu was born in Bucharest and studied at the Conservatory there from 1903 to 1907 under Dumitru Georgescu-Kiriac and Alfonso Castaldi (1874–1942).

He began teaching at the Bucharest Conservatory in 1913, and in 1918 he became its head, a position he held until his death in 1940.

Otescu played an active role in the musical life of Romania and was instrumental in the founding of the Societăţii Lirice Române (the precursor of the Romanian National Opera), the Romanian Composers Society, and the music journal Muzika.