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Groves Dictionary Of Music And Musicians,vol.3, 1907
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1KAUFFMANN
3of the French school. On the other hand, his theoretical works and musical literature have acquired for him a solid reputation. Besides the numerous works enumerated below, Kastner was a voluminous contributor to the Gazette musicale, the Ménestrel, and the Revue étrangère, as well as to the German periodicals, Iris, Allg. musikalische Zeitung, Neue Zeitschrift, Cecilia, and many others. Every spare moment was directed to the preparation of a vast Encyclopædia of Music, which remained unfinished at his death. Kastner was made a free member of the Académie des Beaux-Arts in 1859, and was also decorated by a very large number of institutions outside of France.
5For the details of his honourable and useful life we must refer to the exhaustive biography by Hermann Ludwig (Breitkopf & Härtel, 3 vols., 1886), with complete lists, indexes, etc., a monument raised to Kastner's memory by the devotion of his widow. His library was acquired by the Paris Conservatoire.
7LIST OF WORKS
9Strassburg, 1826 35 Five Operas; three Symphonies; five Overtures; PF. Concerto; Marches; Choruses; Waltzes; ten Serenades for Wind Instruments.
10Paris Operas: 'Beatrice' (1830); 'La Maschera' (1841); 'La Dernier Roi de Juda' (1841); 'Les Nonnes de Robert-le-Diable' (1846). Hymns, Cantatas 'La Ressurrection' (1835), 'Sardanapale' (1852); Cantate alsacienne (1858) Scenes for Voices and PF. Songs, etc. 'Les Derniers Moments d'un artiste,' 'Le Vétéran,' 'Le Negue,' 'Glenallan,' 'Judas Iscariote,' etc., forty-one in all. Part-songs, chiefly for men's voices: 'Bibliothèque chorale,' 72 Nos.; 'Heures d'amour,' 6 Nos., 'Les Chants de la vie,' 28 Nos. (1854), 'Les Chants de l'armée française,' 23 Nos., (1855) 'Les Orphéons,' etc. etc., twenty-six more in all. Piano: 'Valses et galops de Strasbourg,' three sets; Waltzes, Polkas, Marches, etc., twenty-one more in all. Orchestra, two 'Ouvertures de Festival,' in Eb, and C; 'Drame-symphonie' two pieces for saxophone and PF. Treatises: 1. Cours d'instr considéré sous les rapports poétiques, etc. 2 Traité gen. d'instrumentation (1837). 3. Grammaire musicale (1837) 4 Théorie abrégée du contrepoint et du fugue (1839). 5. Méthode élémentaire d'harmonie 6 Suppléments to Nos. 1 and 2. The above were approved by the Institut, and Nos. 1, 2 and 6 adopted by the Conservatoire. 7. Méthodes élément de chant piano, violin, flute, flageolet, cornet à p.' (1837). 8. De la composition, etc., MS. (1841) 9. Cours d'harmonie moderne, MS. (1842). 10 Méthodes élém de violoncelle, hautbois, clarinette, cor, ophicléide, trombone (1841) 11 Méthode . de saxophone (1845) 12. Méthode . . de tambale (1845). 13. Manuel . de musique militaire (1847). 14. Traité de l'orthographie musicale, MS (1849) 15 Les Danses des morts (1852) 16 La Harpe d'Éole et la musique cosmique (1856) 17. Les Chants de l'armée française avec un essai historique sur les chants militaires des Français (1855). 18 Les Voix de Paris (1857). 19 Les Sirènes (1858). 20. Partiémologie mus. de la langue française (1866). Nos. 15, 16, 18, 19 and 20 contain large compositions orchestral and vocal.
12Kastner's son, (2) GEORGES FREDERIC EUGEN (b. Strassburg, Aug. 10, 1852; d. Bonn, Apr. 6, 1882), devoted himself to physical science, especially to research on the law of vibrations. He was the inventor of the 'Pyrophone,' a small organ, the pipes of which were set in vibration by jets of lighted gas. He brought the subject before the Académie des Sciences, Mar. 17, 1873; and issued a book, Le Pyrophone: Flammes chantantes, which reached its 4th edition in 1876. (See also Journal of Society of Arts, Feb. 17, 1875). His memoir occupies the concluding chapters of his father's life by H. Ludwig (B. & H., 1886). G.; rev. M. L. P.
14KAUFFMANN, GEORG FRIEDRICH (b. Ostermondra, Merseburg, Feb. 14, 1679; d. Merseburg, Mar. 1735), pupil of Buttstedt of Erfurt and Alberti of Merseburg, whom he succeeded as court organist, afterwards becoming also Kapellmeister at the court. He composed an oratorio, 4 cantatas, and a considerable number of organ pieces. (See Q.-L.)
16KAUFFMANN, PAUL, a 16th-17th century music publisher, who was manager of the business of 'Wittwe Katharina Gerlach' at Nuremberg in 1590, which business he afterwards took over. Between 1597 and 1614 he published a number of collective volumes, an account whereof is given in Q.-L.
18KAYSER, ISFRID, an 18th-century monk of the Praemonstratenses at Marchthal, where he was also Kapellmeister. He was a composer of masses, psalms, and other church music, as well as 3 suites (Parthiae), op. 4, for harpsichord, mostly published at Augsburg between 1743-54. E. v. d. s.
20KAYSER, MARGARETHE SUSANNA, of Hamburg, the first woman to sing as soloist in a Hamburg church choir, on Sept. 17, 1716, when Mattheson led her personally to the choir. She was also an excellent oratorio and operatic singer between 1716 and 1746, and between 1729 and 1733 undertook, with great success, the management of the opera, which she rescued from a critical condition. She appeared also at various times at Copenhagen opera. Her husband, JOHANN (d. 1729), was conductor of the band of the Hamburg council, and instituted oratorio performances with the assistance of his wife. E. v. d. s.
22KAYSER, PHILIPP CHRISTOPH (b. Frankfort-on-M., Mar. 10, 1755; d. Zurich, Dec. 24, 1823), pianist and composer. From 1775 he lived as music teacher at Zürich, whence Goethe called him to Rome in Nov. 1787 to discuss the composition of some of his Singspiele, as well as the music to Egmont. Goethe was a great friend and admirer of Kayser, and had often given him financial assistance when the loss of pupils, caused often through his eccentric behaviour which offended the parents, had reduced him to dire straits. There are many references to Kayser in Goethe's works and letters, while several essays and books have been written about their relations. Apart from Singspiele, motets, and cantatas, Kayser wrote songs and some harpsichord sonatas (Q.-L.).
24KEARNS, WILLIAM HENRY (b. Dublin, 1794; d. Prince's Place, Kennington, Dec. 28, 1846), a prominent figure in London musical life in the middle part of the 19th century. He came to London in 1817, where he played the violin at Covent Garden Theatre. He wrote an operetta in that year, called 'Bachelors' Wives, or the British at Brussels.' He soon, however, became the musical adviser to Arnold and Hawes, and 'Der Freischütz,' 'Azor and Zemira,' 'Robert the Devil,' and many other foreign operas were brought out under his direction at Covent Garden. Kearns wrote the additional wind accompaniments to the 'Messiah' and 'Israel in Egypt' for the Festival at
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