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Groves Dictionary Of Music And Musicians,vol.3, 1907
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1KIT
3Ludwig Gurckhaus (1821–84). The business was acquired by the brothers Linnemann in 1919.
5KIT, a tiny violin, formerly carried by dancing-masters in their pockets. Hence the French and German names for it were 'pochette' and 'Taschengeige,' though pochette is also applied to an instrument of long and narrow form resembling a sourdine. It was usually about 16 inches long over all: the woodcut shows its size relatively to that of the violin. Sometimes, however, the neck was longer and broader,1 for convenience of fingering, which gave the Kit a disproportioned look (see also PLATE LXXXVII. No. 5).
7The origin of the name may be connected with the beginning of some form of the word Cithara.2 In Florio (1598 and 1611), Beaumont and Fletcher, Ben Jonson and Drayton, it seems evident that it is used without reference to size as a synonym for Crowd, Rebeck or Pandora. Cotgrave (1611) defines it as 'a small Gitterne.' Grew, in 1681, speaks of 'a dancing-master's Kit,' and as dancing-masters' Kits would naturally be smaller than other Kits, the name gradually adhered to them, as that of viol or violin did to the larger sizes. G.
9KITCHINER, WILLIAM (b. London, 1775; d. there, Feb. 27, 1827), M.D. (Glasgow), an accomplished amateur musician, the son of a coal merchant, from whom he inherited an ample fortune, was educated at Eton. He composed an operetta entitled 'Love among the Roses, or, The Master Key,' and was author of Observations on Vocal Music, 1821, and editor of 'The Loyal and National Songs of England,' 1823; 'The Sea Songs of England,' 1823; 'The Sea Songs of Charles Dibdin,' 1824; and 'A Collection of the Vocal Music in Shakspere's Plays.' He was also author of some eccentrically written but useful books, including The Cook's Oracle (1817), The Art of Invigorating and Prolonging Life (1822), The Housekeeper's Ledger (1825), The Economy of the Eyes (1824), The Traveller's Oracle (1827). (The titles of other books are given in the D.N.B.) In his fine musical library was the MS. collection of airs containing the supposed original of 'God save the King,' which, coming after Kitchiner's death into the possession of Richard Clark, was tampered with and has now totally disappeared. W. H. H.; addns. F. K.
11KITTEL, JOHANN CHRISTIAN (b. Erfurt, Feb. 18, 1732; d. there, May 18, 1809), one of the last pupils of J. S. Bach.
13His first post was that of organist at Langensalza (1751), which he left in 1756 for that of the Predigerkirche at his native place. His pay was wretched, and had to be eked out by incessant and laborious teaching. Even when nearly 70 he was forced to make a tour to Göttingen, Hanover, Hamburg and Altona. In the latter place he stayed for some time, to the delight of the musicians there, and published a book of tunes for the Schleswig-Holstein Church (Neues Choralbuch, Altona, 1803). Thence he crept home to Erfurt, where he died in great poverty, but was saved from actual starvation by a small pension allowed him by Prince Primas of Dalberg. The fame of his playing was very great, but is hardly maintained by his works, which are not very important. The best are grand preludes for the organ in two books (Peters); six sonatas and a fantasia for the clavier (Breitkopf); and an organ school (Der angehende praktische Organist, in three books, 1801–08; Erfurt, Beyer; third edition, 1831). His papers were inherited by his pupil, C. H. Rinck, one of many famous organists who perfected themselves under him. Fétis tells us—and we may accept the story as true, since he was intimate with Rinck—that Kittel had inherited a full-sized portrait of Bach, and that when satisfied with his pupils he drew the curtain, and allowed them a sight of the picture as the best reward he could afford them. It is a story quite in accordance with the devotion which Bach is known to have inspired in those who had to do with him.
15KITTEL, KASPAR, a 16th-century composer, was sent to Italy for study from 1624–28 by the Elector of Saxony. He studied also under Heinrich Schütz. In 1630 he was teacher of the theorbo at Dresden; in 1632 inspector of instruments; later court organist, which position he still held in 1669. A follower of the school of Caccini, he composed arias and cantatas 1, 2, 3, and 4 v. with basso continuo, op. 1 (1638), edited in score by Naue, Halle, 1824.
17KJERULF, HALFDAN (b. Christiania, Sept
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