Hans Otte born Hans Günther Franz Otte in Plauen, Germany (December 3, 1926 – December 25 2007) was a German composer, pianist, radio promoter, and author of many pieces of musical theatre, sound installations, poems, drawings, and art videos. From 1959 to 1984 he served as music director for Radio Bremen. He lived and worked in Bremen, Germany. His worklist contains more than 100 works. He studied in Germany, Italy, and at Yale University in the United States. His teachers have included the composer Paul Hindemith and the pianist Walter Gieseking. Some of Otte's works, especially his extended suites for solo piano, are characterized by very minimal means but are nevertheless quite subtle and sophisticated in their architecture and expression. Das Buch der Klänge (The Book of Sounds, 1979-82) and Stundenbuch (Book of Hours, 1991-98) are his best known works in this vein, and Otte often performed them hims

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