Theodore Oesten

He learned to play wind and string instruments from the Stadtmusikus in Fürstenwalde (a small town outside Berlin).

At the age of nineteen he studied composition with Böhmer, Carl Friedrich Rungenhagen, G. A. Schneider and August Wilhelm Bach in Berlin.

Oesten is perhaps best known for his easy to play piano compositions, including transcriptions of operatic works, written in the sentimental style of his day.

His son Max Oesten also became a composer.

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