Otto Ebel von Sosen

Otto Ebel von Sosen (26 March 1899 – 6 February 1974 ) was a German musician, conductor and composer.

Life

Born in Rendsburg, Sosen studied at the University of Music and Performing Arts Munich. From 1920, he worked as Kapellmeister at several small German Opera houses before he was called to Hanover on 1 April 1926 to work at the , which since its commissioning on 20 November 1924 was accommodated in the attic of the administrative building of Hanomag. On 16 December of the same year, and from there he was already active as conductor and as the first director of the institution. As such, Sosen began to build up a Radio orchestra with initially only three, in 1927 already with 17 musicians. In the following year 1928, he founded and directed, at first under the name "Niedersächsisches Landesorchester", the later Niedersächsisches Symphonie-Orchester. Still at the time of the Weimar Republic, he had the orchestra from 1931 to broadcast over the radio on Mondays for more than a decade, initially from the Leineschloss. Holzminden: Weserlandverlag, 1953 Femmes compositeurs de musique. Dictionnaire biographique. Paris, Rosier 1910 (?)