Robert William Otto Allen (March 18, 1852 – December 9, 1888) was a Danish

Denmark

Denmark is a Scandinavian country in Northern Europe. The countries of Denmark and Greenland, as well as the Faroe Islands, constitute the Kingdom of Denmark . It is the southernmost of the Nordic countries, southwest of Sweden and south of Norway, and bordered to the south by Germany. Denmark...

 pianist, composer and conductor. He was the brother of conductor Georg Frederik Ferdinand Allen

Georg Frederik Ferdinand Allen

Georg Frederik Ferdinand Allen was a Danish singing teacher, conductor and composer. He was the brother of musician Robert William Otto Allen....

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He trained at the Royal Academy of Music as a student of Edmund Neupert

Edmund Neupert

Edmund Neupert was a Norwegian pianist and composer.He was a teacher at the Stern Conservatory in Berlin from 1866-1868. He then moved to Copenhagen, where he held a position at the town's conservatory for two years. In 1881 he travelled to Moscow, and in 1882 he moved to Christiania , where he...

. From the late 1870s he was a music teacher in Aarhus

Aarhus

Aarhus or Århus is the second-largest city in Denmark. The principal port of Denmark, Aarhus is on the east side of the peninsula of Jutland in the geographical center of Denmark...

 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 (1881), Ouverture til Dina (1886) and Løft dit hoved, du raske gut (1883).