Robert William Otto Allen


Robert William Otto Allen was a Danish pianist, composer and conductor. He was the brother of conductor Georg Frederik Ferdinand Allen.
He trained at the Royal Academy of Music as a student of Edmund Neupert. From the late 1870s he was a music teacher in Aarhus and in 1885 he became organist at Århus Cathedral. He was a frequent contributor to the Aarhus music scene both as a pianist, as conductor and as a composer.
Notable compositions include Koncertouverture i G-Dur, Ouverture til Dina and Løft dit hoved, du raske gut.