Otto Taubmann (8 March 1859 – 4 July 1929) was a German composer and conductor.

Born in Hamburg, Taubmann was initially a merchant, studied piano, violoncello and composition in Dresden from 1879 to 1882 and made study trips to Paris and Vienna. He worked as a conductor for several years and was the owner of the Freudenberg Conservatory in Wiesbaden from 1886 to 1889. From 1895, he lived in Berlin, first as a theory teacher and music critic (among others for the Berliner Börsen-Courier) and from 1920 to 1925 he was a composition teacher at the Berlin University of the Arts.^[1]

Taubmann belonged to the music section of the Prussian Academy of Arts from 1917. His students at the academy included Ludwig Roselius and Walter Draeger among others.^[2]

Taubmann's compositional output includes sacred and stage music in addition to Lieder and choral works. In addition to psalm settings and the choral drama Sängerweihe published in 1904 after a libretto by Christian von Ehrenfels, the opera Porzia after Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice was premiered in 1916. Another opera entitled Die missbrauchten Liebesbriefe remained a fragment.

In addition to his own compositions, Taubmann published a large number of arrangements of pieces by other composers, including Heinrich Schütz, Richard Strauss, Jean Sibelius and Antonín Dvořák. The arrangement of his Romance in C op. 42, written in 1909 and republished in 2007, was called "Excellent" by the otherwise very critical Sibelius in a letter to the publisher.^[3]

Occasionally, Taubmann used the pseudonym Nambuat.

Taubmann died in Berlin at the age of 70. He found his final resting place on the Stahnsdorf South-Western Cemetery.

• Streichquartett a-Moll, 1890
• Eine Deutsche Messe for soli, choir, orchestra and organ, 1899
• Sängerweihe, Choral drama, world premiere 25 November 1904 in Elberfeld
• Und ich sah, Lied, op. 26
• Tauwetter, Choral piece
• Kampf und Friede, Cantata
• Porzia, Opera, premiere 15 November 1916 in Frankfurt.^[4][5]
• Sang an die Heimat, Symphony
• Die missbrauchten Liebesbriefe, Opera fragment after Gottfried Keller

• Fabian Kolb: In Die Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart. Personal part in 17 volumes. Volume 13
• Franz Stieger: Opernlexikon, part II: Komponisten, Tutzing 1977