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2 unusual facts about Hans Otte


Foxton Fizz

The film features a soundtrack that includes excerpts of music by German minimalist composer Hans Otte.

Hans Otte

From the early 1960s onwards, Otte frequently presented contemporary experimental American composers in his Bremen radio festival pro musica nova, among them in those days completely unknown people like John Cage, David Tudor, Terry Riley, and Lamonte Young.


Holy minimalism

Examples include Arvo Pärt (an Estonian Orthodox), John Tavener (a British composer who converted to Russian Orthodoxy), Henryk Górecki (a Polish Catholic), Alan Hovhaness (the earliest mystic minimalist), Sofia Gubaidulina, Giya Kancheli, Hans Otte, Pēteris Vasks and Vladimír Godár.

Ralph van Raat

All of his recordings have been of contemporary or 20th-century composers, such as John Adams, Hans Otte, Arvo Pärt, Gavin Bryars and Frederic Rzewski.


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