Oscar Saenger

Oscar Saenger (January 5, 1868 – April 20, 1929) was a singing teacher. With the Victor Talking Machine Company he produced a complete course in vocal training in twenty lessons.

Biography
He was born on January 5, 1868, in Brooklyn, New York City to German-American parents. When he was 18 years old, in 1886, he received a scholarship to the National Conservatory of Music of America. In 1891 he became the baritone soloist for the New American Opera Company in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and in 1892 was a soloist for the Arion Society on their European tour.

He married Charlotte Wells on October 5, 1892, in Brooklyn. They had a daughter, actress and dancer Khyva St. Albans.

He died on April 20, 1929, at the Washington Sanitarium in Washington, DC of cancer. He had been ill for a year and a half. Swami Paramahansa Yogananda performed the funeral rites.

Pupils
He had the following pupils:
 * Theodore C. Diers (1880–1942)
 * Paul Althouse (1889–1954)
 * Mabel Garrison (1886–1963)
 * Kathleen Howard (1884–1956)
 * Orville Harrold (1878–1933)
 * Florence Hinkle (1855–1933)
 * Bernice de Pasquali (1873–1925)
 * Leon Rains (1870–1954)
 * Marie Rappold (1874–1957)
 * Lila Robeson, Louis Kreidler, Henri Scott, Sidonie Spero, Grace Hoffman, Elsie Raker, Fely Clement, Joseph Regneas, Joseph S. Bernstein and Vera Curtis.
 * Florence Cole Talbert (1890–1961)