This Book of Memories memorial website is designed to be a permanent tribute paying tribute to the life and memory of Niels Ostbye. It allows family and friends a place to re-visit, interact with each other, share and enhance this tribute for future generations. We are both pleased and proud to provide the Book of Memories to the families of our community.

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Carl Distefano

I have warm memories of Niels Østbye, who was my first and only piano teacher, at Columbia in the early 1970s. He has been in my thoughts often since then, and I'm sad to find out that he has left us. He was a wonderful teacher, so life-affirming and humane, with a great sense of humor, and I'm sure he left his gentle mark on countless students across the years. He invited me to his apartment in Midtown Manhattan once, to hear a student prepare for her recital, but I regret that I never actually heard Niels himself play. It's good to know that he had a long life, a life certainly well lived.
Saturday March 19, 2022 at 1:03 am
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