Otto Joachim
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Otto Joachim (born 1910) is a German-born musician and composer of electronic music.
Joachim was born in Dusseldorf in 1910. He trained as a violinist at Dusseldorf and Cologne. In 1934 he left Germany and played in Singapore and Shanghai during the war years. He settled permanently in Montreal in 1949. For the next 15 years Joachim worked as a player, teacher, instrument builder and composer. Since the 1960s he has concentrated on his compositions which are a mix of aleatoric and electroacoustic works.