Otto Joachim
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- Born
- 1910
- Died
- 2010-07-30
- Works
- 3
Top works
- Contrastes, for orchestra
- Expansion, pour flûte et piano
- Illumination II
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- Listeners
- 127
- Total plays
- 620
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Electronics
Otto Joachim (born October 13, 1910) is a German-born Canadian musician and composer of electronic music. Born in Düsseldorf, he trained as a violinist at Düsseldorf and Cologne. In 1934 he left Germany and played in Singapore and Shanghai during the war years. He settled permanently in Montreal in 1949. For the next 15 years Joachim worked as a player, teacher, instrument builder and composer. Since the 1960s he has concentrated on his compositions which are a mix of aleatoric and electroacous
Key dates
- Born
- 13 October 1910
- Died
- 30 July 2010
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Otto
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Germany
- Place of birth
- Düsseldorf
- Place of death
- Montreal
- Occupation
- violinist
- Employer
- McGill University
- Languages spoken
- German
- Instrument
- viola
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1910 births2010 deaths20th-century Canadian composers20th-century Canadian male composers20th-century Canadian violistsAcademic staff of the Conservatoire de musique du Québec à MontréalCanadian classical violistsCanadian male composersCanadian people of German-Jewish descentComposers awarded knighthoodsElectroacoustic music composersGerman emigrants to Canada