Otto Singer

He is best known for his piano transcriptions of orchestral works, including symphonies by Beethoven, Brahms, Bruckner, Mozart and Tchaikovsky.

He was educated in Dresden, and later in Leipzig until 1865, and after a short residence in Weimar with Franz Liszt went to New York in 1869.

[1] He also wrote a Rhapsodie for Piano and Orchestra in C major (1881) dedicated to Hans von Bülow.

He was an earnest and aggressive disciple of Liszt and Richard Wagner both in his compositions and piano performances.

[2] Otto Singer Jr., his son (September 14, 1863 – January 8, 1931), composer and conductor,[3] produced piano transcriptions of all nine of Beethoven's symphonies, at least 57 of Liszt's songs, all four of Brahms's symphonies, vocal-piano reductions (vocal parts plus solo piano) of 12 of Wagner's operas (as well as instrumental solo piano versions for some of them), as well as transcriptions of other works by Richard Strauss, Brahms, Beethoven, Bruckner, Tchaikovsky, Mozart, and Mahler, among others.