Otto Abel (composer)


Otto Abel was a German organist, Kantor, composer, Verlagslektor und evangelischer.

Life

Born in Berlin, von 1930 bis 1970 Abel was Kantor and organist at the Immanuelkirche in Berlin-Prenzlauer Berg. From 1959 also Regional Church Music Director for the Eastern Region of the Evangelical Church in Berlin, Brandenburg and Silesian Upper Lusatia and from 1956 Church Music Editor at the Evangelische Verlagsanstalt in East Berlin.
Abel composed several church songs and works for the organ.
He died on a journey in Tettnang, Baden-Württemberg.

Some compositions