Otto Malling

Otto Valdemar Malling was a Danish composer, from 1900 the cathedral organist in Copenhagen and from 1889 professor, then from 1899 Director of the Royal Danish Academy of Music, Copenhagen.

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Otto Malling, born in Copenhagen in 1848, was a composer who trained at the Conservatory under prominent figures such as Gade and J. P. E. Hartmann, according to A Biographical Dictionary of Musicians (1905). His career saw him active in various musical capacities: he conducted the Students’ Choral Society from 1872 to 1884, served as organist of St. Peter’s Church from 1878, and in 1884, co-founded and conducted the Concert Society. By 1885, he had joined the Conservatory faculty as a teacher of theory. Malling’s published output was substantial, exceeding seventy works, and included a Symphony in D minor, a Fantasia for violin with orchestra, a Concert Overture, and “Reveil” for four solo voices with string orchestra. He also composed Danish choruses with orchestra, numerous songs, and characteristic piano pieces, with his Op. 65, “The Holy Scriptures,” featuring soprano, tenor, and baritone soli with organ or piano. Beyond composition, The New Encyclopedia of Music and Musicians (1924) notes that Malling authored a work on instrumentation around 1905. His brother, Jorgen Malling, also a musician, was an early recipient of the Ancker Scholarship in Denmark in 1861, a governmental stipend awarded to both young aspirants and mature workers, as recorded in The New Encyclopedia of Music and Musicians (1924).