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Groves Dictionary Of Music And Musicians,vol.3, 1907
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1and Holy Week, a first-rate amateur choir performed the principal works of the old Italian composers, and of Bach, Handel, etc. He was ennobled for his services as an official in the Kriegsrath, taking his title from his estate. Innumerable societies elected him a member in acknowledgment of his services as a musician. He left his musical MSS. and his correspondence with musical men of letters to Aloys Fuchs, and to the court library his invaluable collection of scores, with the condition that they should be kept together as the Kicsewetter collection. He was buried in the cemetery at Vienna, 'vor der Währinger Linie.'
3That he was a most prolific writer the following list of his principal works will show:
51. Die Verdienste der Niederländer um die Tonkunst (received the gold prize-medal, Amsterdam, 1828). 2. Geschichte der europäisch-abendländischen, das ist unserer heutigen Musik (Breitkopf & Härtel, 1834, 2nd ed. 1846, translated into English by R. Müller, 1848). 3. Über die Musik der Neuägypten, with remarks on ancient Egyptian and ancient Greek music; three treatises (ibid., 1838). 4. Guido von Arezzo, life and works (ibid., 1840). 5. Schicksale und Beschaffenheit des weilichen Gesanges, from the early Middle Ages down to the discovery of the dramatic style and rise of opera (ibid., 1841). 6. Die Musik der Araber, from original sources (ibid., 1842). 7. Über das Leben, und die Werke Palestrinas, a condensation of Baini's work left unpublished by Kandler, edited with preface and remarks (ibid., 1834). 8. Der neuen Aristoxenener zertreute Aufsatze (ibid., 1846). 9. Über die Octave des Pythagoras, supplement to the preceding (Vienna, 1848). 10. Catalog über die Sammlung der Partituren alter Musik, etc.1 (Vienna, 1847), with preface and appendix (Gallerie der alten Contrapunktisten, a selection from their works, chronologically arranged).
7Also about fifty scattered articles in different periodicals, reviews, etc. A letter from him to R. L. de Pearsall, dated 1838, and expressed in very queer English, is printed in the Mus. T., 1902, p. 93, from the original in the B.M.
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11KILBURN, NICHOLAS (b. Bishop Auckland, Durham, Feb. 7, 1843; d. there, Dec. 4, 1923), a zealous and able amateur, who did a great work for the cultivation and appreciation of good music in the north of England. He graduated Mus.B. (cantab. in 1880, and received the hon. degree of Mus.D. from Durham University, 1914. His activity as a conductor was in connexion with three important northern societies: the Bishop Auckland Musical Society from 1875, the Middlesbrough Musical Union from its foundation in 1882, and the Sunderland Philharmonic Society from 1886. His independent position as an honorary conductor and adviser allowed him great freedom in arranging his programmes, which, while by no means neglecting the great classics of choral and orchestral music, introduced many works which were either new to the country or at least unfamiliar. His habit of attending the principal festivals, at home and abroad—he was a frequent visitor to Bayreuth—enabled him to keep in close touch with current music, and his influence on the music of the district in which he worked was healthful and enduring. He was an efficient organist, pianist and violoncellist, and composed several works for chorus and orchestra, of which the latest, a 'Choral In Memoriam, for Voices, Violins and Trumpet' (Novello), composed 'in memory of our brave soldiers and sailors, 1914 and after,' may be cited. H. T.
13KIND, JOHANN FRIEDRICH (b. Leipzig, Mar. 4, 1768; d. Dresden, June 25, 1843), author of the words of 'Der Freischütz'; was brought up to the law, but frequented the Thomasschule of his own accord. He began to practise literature as early as 1800, and after much success with novels and tales, settled in 1814 at Dresden, became a Hofrat, and definitely renounced the law for a literary life. Here Weber met him, at the house of von Nordstern. About Feb. 15, 1817, Kind read to him his Vandyck's Landleben, which so pleased the composer that he at once consulted him as to an opera-book. The choice of a source fell on Apel's Gespensterbuch (Ghost Stories). Weber had, several years before, been attached to the story of the Freischütz, and so entirely did his enthusiasm communicate itself to Kind, that by the evening of Feb. 23 he had completed the first act of the opera. This was the only important joint composition of the two, but Jähns's Catalogue contains eleven other pieces, the words of which were supplied by Kind. The chief of these is the 'Jubel Cantata,' another cantata called 'Natur und Liebe,' five songs, two part-songs, and a chorus. Some of these were taken from operas of Kind's—'Der Weinberg an der Elbe,' 'Der Abend am Waldbrunnen,' and 'Das Nachtlager in Granada.' The last of these was set to music by Conradin Kreutzer. Kind seems to have supplied Spanish materials for 'Preciosa,' and Weber had two librettos by him—'Alcindor,' 1819, and 'Der Cid,' 1821—under consideration, but 'Der Freischütz' is the one which Weber adopted in full. Kind's 'Holzdieb' (Woodthief) was composed by Marschner in 1824. He is described by Weber's son as a small person, with a great opinion of himself and a harsh voice. Two volumes of his works were published, Leipzig, 1821.
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17KINDERMANN, AUGUST (b. Berlin, Feb. 6, 1817; d. Munich, Mar. 6, 1891), began his career at the opera as a chorus-singer, received instruction from Meyer, and played both bass and baritone parts at Leipzig in 1839–46, after which he was engaged at Munich, where he obtained a life engagement, and was always a great favourite, being a very versatile artist. He celebrated his twenty-fifth anniversary of his engagement there on June 15, 1871, as Figaro in 'Nozze,' the Cherubino being his elder daughter Marie, then engaged at Cassel. He sang Titurel at Bayreuth in 1882; and on Sept. 9, 1886, he celebrated the jubilee of his career, and the fortieth year of his engagement at Munich, playing the part of Stadinger in Lortzing's 'Waffenschmied.' For his daughter Hedwig, see REICHER-KINDERMANN.
19KINDERMANN, JOHANN ERASMUS (b. Nuremberg, Mar. 29, 1616;2 d. Apr. 14, 1655), Nuremberg organist. His chief work is entitled Harmonia organica in tabulaturam Germanicam composita, etc., first published in 1645,
211 The scores left to the court library.
222 Riemann.
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