Otto Trobäck

Swedish conductor, composer and music director, born 16 November 1872 in Fränninge parish, Malmöhus county, died 31 August 1938 in Stockholm. He studied at the Conservatory of Music in Stockholm 1894-99 and was a student of Richard Andersson in Stockholm and Friedrich Gernsheim in Berlin. He was music director at Västmanland's regiment in 1899, at Göta livgarde in 1907, conductor at Hasselbacken, Bern's salon (1904-1905), Phoenix Palace (1912-1918) and silent film musician at the Palladium cinema in Stockholm (1919-1925). He made concert trips with the Göta Life Guards' music corps to Copenhagen in 1919 and to Helsinki in 1924. He was elected an associate of the Royal Academy of Music in 1919. He composed concert overtures for large orchestra and mourning anthem at Oscar II's stretcher for military music.