Photo: Erik Damskier · Public domain · credits
Tier 3 · vertical & regional
Otto Malling
Person · male · Kingdom of Denmark · Copenhagen · born 1848 · died 1915 · recording since 1996
Danish composer, organist and educator (1848–1915)
Also known as オット・マリング
Timeline
7 events✦ Award 2▣ Album 2◦ Birth 1† Death 1★ Debut release 1
1840s
1890s
1900s
1910s
1990s
· Debut release
Debut release: Paulus / Frelserens syv Ord paa Korset
First documented Album in the MusicBrainz discography.
source: musicbrainz
2000s
Biography
English biography273 words · 1 sectionssource: wikipedia-en · licence CC BY-SA 4.0 · revision 1287030146
Biography
Otto Valdemar Malling (1 June 1848 – 5 October 1915) was a Danish composer, from 1900 the cathedral organist in Copenhagen and from 1889 professor, then from 1899 Director of the Royal Danish Academy of Music, Copenhagen.
Otto Malling was born in Copenhagen. He became a pupil of Niels Wilhelm Gade and Johan Peter Emilius Hartmann; in his later career he mainly composed organ works and vocal music, but he also wrote a Fantasia for Violin and Orchestra, Op. 20, an appealing Schumannesque piano trio (in A minor, opus 36, 1889), piano quartet (in C minor, opus 80), and a Brahmsian piano concerto in C minor (opus 43, 1890), all of which are recorded and infrequently heard in concert. His output also contains among other substantial works a cantata Det hellige Land, opus 46, (published in 1897), a symphony in D minor, opus 17 (published in 1884), and an octet for strings, opus 50 (published in or before 1907). Malling wrote the first Danish textbook in orchestration, along French conservatory lines.
He taught musical theory to Knudåge Riisager in 1915. He was also a music editor, creating piano reductions and vocal scores of works by Johan Peter Emilius Hartmann, Niels Wilhelm Gade and Christian Julius Hansen for the publisher Samfundet til udgivelse af dansk Musik.
He was a co-founder and vice-conductor of The Concert Society, Copenhagen (1874), supporting himself as organist at various Copenhagen churches. His scores of organ music brought Malling some reputation abroad, but after his death he was soon forgotten in his native country as musical tastes changed. In the late 20th century, several of his concert works were recorded.
Discography & profile
Normalised profile
Percentiles are computed over every artist in the database, so a tier-3 artist can still sit in the 95th percentile on a single axis.
| Metric | Value | Percentile |
|---|---|---|
| Wikipedia language versions | 13 | 67.6th |
| Spotify monthly listeners | — | no data |
| Release groups in DB | 2 | 75.7th |
| Studio albums | 2 | 78.8th |
| Awards recorded | 2 | 92.6th |
| Timeline events | 7 | 82.6th |
| Recording span (years) | -81 | 5.4th |
| Genres | 4 | 84.7th |
Percentiles are computed at render time; missing values mean the artist has no data on that axis.
Discography (2 release groups · 2 studio albums)
Albums · 2
Paulus / Frelserens syv Ord paa Korset
1996 · studio album
Search SpotifySearch YouTube Music
Tracklist · 11 tracks · 1:02:25
1Paulus. Stemningsbilleder for Orgel, op. 78: I. Saulus raser mod Herrens Disciple4:582Paulus. Stemningsbilleder for Orgel, op. 78: II. På Vejen til Damaskus5:083Paulus. Stemningsbilleder for Orgel, op. 78: III. Saulus bliver seende og omvender sig4:444Paulus. Stemningsbilleder for Orgel, op. 78: IV. Paulus forkynder Evangeliet og lider Forfølgelse4:495Paulus. Stemningsbilleder for Orgel, op. 78: V. Folket holder Paulus en Gud og ofrer til ham4:376Paulus. Stemningsbilleder for Orgel, op. 78: VI. Kjærlighedens Gave3:567Frelserens syv Ord paa Korset. Stemningsbilleder for Orgel, op. 81: I. Indledning. Gangen til Golgatha7:538Frelserens syv Ord paa Korset. Stemningsbilleder for Orgel, op. 81: II. Kjærlighedens Ord7:509Frelserens syv Ord paa Korset. Stemningsbilleder for Orgel, op. 81: III. Lidelsens Ord6:2710Frelserens syv Ord paa Korset. Stemningsbilleder for Orgel, op. 81: IV. Sejrens Ord6:3611Frelserens syv Ord paa Korset. Stemningsbilleder for Orgel, op. 81: V. Epilog, met Slutkor5:272004 · studio album
Search SpotifySearch YouTube Music
Tracklist · 9 tracks · 1:15:55
1Concerto for Piano & Orchestra in C minor, op. 43: Allegro con fuoco11:352Concerto for Piano & Orchestra in C minor, op. 43: Notturno: Andante7:093Concerto for Piano & Orchestra in C minor, op. 43: Finale: Presto6:354Concerto for Piano & Orchestra in C-sharp minor, op. 28: Allegro12:415Concerto for Piano & Orchestra in C-sharp minor, op. 28: Intermezzo. Andante con moto6:046Concerto for Piano & Orchestra in C-sharp minor, op. 28: Finale. Allegro8:227Concerto for Piano & Orchestra in A minor, op. 54: Maestoso. Allegro vigoroso10:268Concerto for Piano & Orchestra in A minor, op. 54: Andante espressivo5:489Concerto for Piano & Orchestra in A minor, op. 54: Allegro7:15
Stats & PK
Percentile within all 23,672 published artists.Put Otto Malling head-to-head →
| Metric | Value | Percentile |
|---|---|---|
| Wikipedia language versions | 13 | 67.6th |
| Spotify monthly listeners | — | no data |
| Release groups in DB | 2 | 75.7th |
| Studio albums | 2 | 78.8th |
| Awards recorded | 2 | 92.6th |
| Timeline events | 7 | 82.6th |
| Recording span (years) | -81 | 5.4th |
| Genres | 4 | 84.7th |
Awards & honours
| Year | Award | Category | Result |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1893 | Knight of the Order of the Dannebrog | won | |
| 1905 | Decoration of the Cross of Honour of the Dannebrog | won |
Where this record comes from
portrait—Wikimedia Commons · Public domain · retrieved 11 October 2026
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Otto_Malling.gifaliases/urls—musicbrainz · CC0 · retrieved 10 October 2026
https://musicbrainz.org/artist/b0aeaba9-5544-49c4-811a-7d3cbb1e2084discography—musicbrainz · CC0 · retrieved 10 October 2026
https://musicbrainz.org/artist/b0aeaba9-5544-49c4-811a-7d3cbb1e2084core—wikidata · CC0 · retrieved 10 October 2026
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q951874genre—wikidata · CC0 · retrieved 11 October 2026
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q951874seed-list—wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0 · retrieved 10 October 2026
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otto_Mallingbiography—wikipedia-en · CC BY-SA 4.0 · retrieved 10 October 2026
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otto_Malling
Why this artist is in the database
- List of composers by name
Tier rule: curated genre/region list
Image: Erik Damskier · Public domain · Wikimedia Commons
Wikidata: Q951874 · MusicBrainz: b0aeaba9-5544-49c4-811a-7d3cbb1e2084
Similar artists
Browse every Tier 3 artist →Ranked from this record's own data: shared genre tags (rarer tags weigh more), era, home country and comparable fame. Every card lists the signals that placed it — no editorial picks.
Francesco Barsanti
Kingdom of Great Britain · Person
classical music
1 shared genre tag · debut 1994, 2 years apart
13 wikis
Franciscus Bossinensis
Person
classical music
1 shared genre tag · debut 1999, 3 years apart
13 wikis
John Luther Adams
United States · Person
classical music
1 shared genre tag · debut 1993, 3 years apart
14 wikis
Nicolas Bernier
France · Person
classical music
1 shared genre tag · debut 1998, 2 years apart
11 wikis
Ján Levoslav Bella
Austrian Empire · Person
classical music
1 shared genre tag · debut 1994, 2 years apart
15 wikis
Lord Berners
United Kingdom · Person
classical music
1 shared genre tag · debut 1995, 1 year apart
15 wikis
Woldemar Bargiel
Kingdom of Prussia · Person
classical music
1 shared genre tag · debut 1994, 2 years apart
15 wikis
Easley Blackwood, Jr.
United States · Person
classical music
1 shared genre tag · debut 1993, 3 years apart
9 wikis