Oscar Saenger (1868-1929) in 1917 standing

Oscar Saenger advertisement in the International Who's who in Music and Musical Gazetteer (1918)

Oscar Saenger (January 5, 1868 – April 20, 1929) was a singing teacher. With the

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he produced a complete course in vocal training in twenty lessons.

Biography

He was born on January 5, 1868, in

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parents. When he was 18 years old, in 1886, he received a scholarship to the

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. In 1891 he became the baritone soloist for the New American Opera Company in

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and in 1892 was a soloist for the

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on their European tour. He married Charlotte Wells on October 5, 1892, in Brooklyn. They had a daughter, actress and dancer Khyva St. Albans.Bide Dudley
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He died on April 20, 1929, at the Washington Sanitarium in

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of cancer. He had been ill for a year and a half. Swami

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performed the funeral rites.

Pupils

He had the following pupils: * Theodore C. Diers (1880–1942) *

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(1889–1954) *

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, Grace Hoffman, Elsie Raker, Fely Clement, Joseph Regneas, Joseph S. Bernstein and Vera Curtis. * Florence Cole Talbert (1890–1961)

References

External links

Oscar Saenger recordings
at the

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