Robert William Otto Allen, Date of Birth, Date of Death

Robert William Otto Allen

Danish musician

Date of Birth: 18-Mar-1852

Date of Death: 09-Dec-1888

Profession: composer, pianist

Nationality: Denmark

Zodiac Sign: Pisces

Robert William Otto Allen (18 March 1852 – 9 December 1888) was a Danish pianist, composer and conductor.
He was the brother of conductor Georg Frederik Ferdinand Allen. He trained at the Royal Academy of Music as a student of Edmund Neupert.
From the late 1870s he was a music teacher in Aarhus and in 1885 he became organist at Århus Cathedral.
He was a frequent contributor to the Aarhus music scene both as a pianist, as conductor and as a composer. Notable compositions include Koncertouverture i G-Dur (1881), Ouverture til Dina (1886) and Løft dit hoved, du raske gut (1883).