Otto Kitzler (18 March 1834 – 6 September 1915) was a German cellist and conductor. He is noted for being the form and orchestration teacher of the Austrian composer Anton Bruckner from 1861 to 1863. Kitzler led the

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theatre orchestra and was responsible for introducing Bruckner to the music of Richard Wagner as well as other 19th-century composers. The sketches and compositions that Bruckner prepared for Kitzler are found in the '' Kitzler-Studienbuch'', which "due to its inaccessibility...has achieved little notoriety in the musical world". Kitzler wrote a funeral music "In Memorial of Anton Bruckner" (Trauermusik "Dem Andenken Anton Bruckners"), re-orchestrated by Gerd Schaller (2012) and recorded with the Philharmonie Festiva for Profil Edition Günter

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