{{Infobox person | image = OttoSutro.jpg | caption = Otto Sutro | birth_name = | birth_date = 1833 | birth_place = Aachen, Germany | death_date = January 19, 1896 (age 63) | death_place = | death_cause = | education = | spouse = Arianna Handy | occupation = Musician | children = Rose and Ottilie Sutro | parents = | family = Adolph Sutro (brother)<br>Alexander Hamilton Handy (father-in-law)<br> Florence Sutro (sister-in-law) }}
'''Otto Sutro''' (1833 – January 19, 1896) was a German-born American organist, conductor, minor composer, publisher and music store owner, and a leading figure in the musical life of Baltimore, Maryland.
==Biography== Sutro was born to a Jewish family in Aachen, Germany. He has six brothers and three sisters.<ref name=SutroCall>{{Cite web|title=Death of Otto Sutro |publisher=San Francisco Call|date= January 20, 1896|url= https://cdnc.ucr.edu/cgi-bin/cdnc?a=d&d=SFC18960120.2.106 }}</ref> His brother Adolph Sutro became the first Jewish Mayor of San Francisco<ref name=SutroCall /><ref>{{Cite web|last=Eskenazi|first=Joe|title=Name of anti-Chinese SF Jew may be stripped from playground |publisher=Jewish News of Northern California|date=May 4, 2018 |url=https://www.jweekly.com/2018/05/04/name-anti-chinese-sf-jew-may-stripped-playground/ }}</ref> and built the Sutro Baths.<ref>{{Cite web|title= Sutro Baths History |publisher=National Park Service|url=https://www.nps.gov/goga/learn/historyculture/sutro-baths.htm |access-date=May 5, 2018}}</ref> His brother Theodore Sutro, husband of Florence Sutro, was seminal in the building and financing the Sutro Tunnel first proposed by his brother Adolph.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=w_XxtccoD0UC&q=Theodore+Sutro+tunnel&pg=PA115 |last1=Smith |first1=Grant Horace |last2=Tingley|first2=Joseph V.|title=The History of the Comstock Lode, 1850-1997|pages=107–115 |publisher=University of Nevada Press|date=July 21, 1998|isbn=9781888035049}}</ref><ref name=SutroCall /> He studied the organ with Nicolas Lemmens in Brussels and moved to the United States in 1851, undertaking further studies at the Peabody Institute. He hosted a musical appreciation society known as the Wednesday Club. With fellow alum Fritz Finke, Sutro helped found the Oratorio Society of Baltimore, and became its main conductor.
==Personal life== He married Arianna Handy, a pianist, singer, and daughter of a former chief justice of Mississippi, Alexander Hamilton Handy.<ref>{{cite book|page=247|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7XaQMhh2qfkC&pg=PA247 |first=Donald G.|last=Miller|title=The Scent of Eternity|year = 1990| publisher=Mercer University Press |isbn = 9780865543324}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|last= Lloyd |first=James B. |title= Lives of Mississippi Authors, 1817-1967 |publisher=University Press of Mississippi|date=1981 |isbn=9781617034183 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=RfXGJBB1HvoC&q=%22Alexander+Hamilton+Handy%22&pg=PA217 |access-date=May 5, 2018}}</ref> They had two daughters,<ref name=SutroCall /> Rose and Ottilie Sutro, who were the first recognised piano-duo team. Sutro sat for portrait artist David Dalhoff Neal in 1889 (see image). Rapheal Tuck & Son created a litho art card Character Otto Sutro.
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