Vrieslander, Otto (1880–1950)

German musicologist and composer. As a musicologist he was a pupil of Heinrich Schenker (1868–1935), whose unfinished Harmonielehre he completed. He also wrote on C P E Bach and edited some of his works.

He studied at the Cologne Conservatory, settled at Munich in 1906, and went to live at Locarno in Switzerland in 1920.

Works Songs songs from Des Knaben Wunderhorn (on Giraud's ‘Pierrot lunaire’, 1904) and to words by Goethe, Keller, and Theodor Storm.