Bestandig, Otto 21.feb.1835-26.feb.1917 Germany Silesia, Striegau (now Poland, Strzegom) - Hamburg Wandsbek
pianist, organist, conductor, studied organ with Carl Gottlieb Freudenberg, singing with Johann Theodor Mosewius and composition with Carl Mettner in Breslau, 1858 settled in Hamburg, 1862-1910 founded/directed his own Conservatory, 1863-1910 founded/directed the Hamburger Konzertverein, conductor of the Musikgesellschaft in Wandsbek, 1879 koniglich preussischer musikdirektor