Oscar Saenger: Difference between revisions

Oscar Saenger (January 5, 1868 – April 20, 1929) was a singing teacher. With the Victor Talking Machine Company he produced a complete course in vocal training in twenty lessons.^[1]

He was born on January 5, 1868, in Brooklyn, New York City to German-American parents. When he was 18 years old, in 1886, he received a scholarship to the National Conservatory of Music of America. In 1891 he became the baritone soloist for the New American Opera Company in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and in 1892 was a soloist for the Arion Society on their European tour.^[1]

He married Charlotte Wells on October 5, 1892, in Brooklyn.^[1] They had a daughter, actress and dancer Khyva St. Albans.^[2]

From 1925 to 1927 he served as president of the New York Singing Teachers Association.^[3]

He died on April 20, 1929, at the Washington Sanitarium in Washington, DC of cancer. He had been ill for a year and a half. Swami Paramahansa Yogananda performed the funeral rites.^[1]

He had the following pupils:^[1]

• Theodore C. Diers (1880–1942)
• Paul Althouse (1889–1954)
• Mabel Garrison (1886–1963)
• Kathleen Howard (1884–1956)
• Orville Harrold (1878–1933)
• Florence Hinkle (1885–1933)
• Bernice de Pasquali (1873–1925)
• Leon Rains (1870–1954)
• Marie Rappold (1874–1957)
• Lila Robeson, Louis Kreidler, Henri Scott, Sidonie Spero, Grace Hoffman, Elsie Raker, Fely Clement, Joseph Regneas, Joseph S. Bernstein, Vera Curtis [Pauline Widenmann Kempf (1860-1953) of Ann Arbor, MI].
• Florence Cole Talbert (1890–1961)