A Dictionary of Music and Musicians/Tiersch, Otto

by George Grove

TIERSCH, Otto, born Sept. 1, 1838, at Kalbsrieth in Thuringia, received instruction from Töpfer of Weimar, Billermann, Marx, and Erk; was then teacher in Stern's Conservatorium, and is now teacher of singing to the city of Berlin. His writings are practical, and concern themselves much with an endeavour to make the modern discoveries of Helmholtz and others, in acoustics, available in teaching singing. The principal are as follows, 'System und Method der Harmonielehre' (1868); 'Elementarbuch der musikalischen Harmonie und Modulationslehre' (1874); 'Kurzes praktisches generalbass Harmonielehre' (1876); the same for Counterpoint and Imitation (1879). The article on 'Harmonielehre' in Mendel's Lexicon is by him.

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