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4 unusual facts about Otto Nicolai


Alfred Piccaver

His studies led to a three-year contract with the Deutsches Landes-Theater in Prague where he made his debut on 9 September 1907 in Otto Nicolai's The Merry Wives of Windsor.

Haus der Musik

The Haus der Musik is located in the Palace of Archduke Charles, where Otto Nicolai, founder of the Vienna Philharmonic, lived around 150 years ago.

Otto Nicolai

In 1844 he was offered the position, vacated by Felix Mendelssohn, of Kapellmeister at the Berlin Cathedral; but he did not reestablish himself in Berlin until the last year of his life.

Paul Kuën

He also appears on recordings of several rarely performed German operas such as Goetz's Der Widerspänstigen Zähmung, Lortzing's Die Beiden Schützen, Nicolai's Die Lustigen Weiber Von Windsor, and Orff's Der Mond, Die Kluge and Antigonae.



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