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Groves Dictionary Of Music And Musicians,vol.3, 1907
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1of a noble family in Munich as resident-tutor, and died there.
3His musical work, published at Augsburg in 1733, is entitled 'Certamen Aonium id est, Lusus vocum inter se innocue concertantum,' etc., and consists of preludes, short fugues or versetts, and cadences or concluding voluntaries, all intended for church use. Ritter (Geschichte des Orgelspiels) gives one of Kolb's preludes, and says of the work generally that it shows the composer to have been an original and capable musician, although it is also evident from extracts given in Seiffert (Geschichte der Klaviermusik) that many of the pieces are written in a somewhat uneclesiastical style, a style more suitable to the harpsichord or piano-forte than to the organ. There are some bold experiments in chromatic and enharmonic progressions. The whole work is characteristic of the lighter style of organ playing which, owing to Italian influence, was chiefly cultivated in Catholic South Germany and Austria. E. von Werra has reprinted three of Kolb's pieces in his 'Orgelbuch.'
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7KOLISEK, ALOIS (b. Protivanov, Moravia, 1868), one of six brothers who all entered the priesthood. He has travelled much, is an accomplished linguist, and an active propagandist of the folk-art of Moravia and Slovakia. He is professor of aesthetics in the theological faculty at Bratislava. Dr. Kolisek has contributed valuable information on the subject of Slovak music to this Dictionary.
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11KOLLMANN, (1) AUGUST FRIEDRICH CHRISTOPH (b. Engelbostel, Hanover, c. 1756; d. London, Apr. 19, 1829), of a musical family, his father an organist and schoolmaster, his brother, George Christoph, an organist of great renown at Hamburg. Appointed organist at Lüne, near Lüneburg, about 1781, and in 1784 was selected to be chapel-keeper and schoolmaster at the German Chapel, St. James's, London. In 1792 George III. presented a chamber organ to the chapel, which was played by Kollmann under the title of 'clerk' till his death on Easter Day, 1829.
13He was a person of much energy, and in 1809, during a large fire in the palace, is said to have saved the chapel by standing in the doorway and preventing the firemen from entering to destroy it. His works are numerous: Essay on Practical Harmony, 1796; Essay on Practical Musical Composition, 1799; Practical Guide to Thorough Bass, 1801; Vindication of a Passage in Thorough Bass, 1802; New Theory of Musical Harmony, 1806; Second Practical Guide to Thorough Bass, 1807; Quarterly Musical Register, 1812 (two numbers only); Remarks on Logier, 1824 (some of these went through two editions); Analysed Symphony (for piano, violin and bass), op. 3; First beginning on the PF., op. 5, 1796; 'Sinfonien,' i.e. trios for piano, violin and violonecello, op. 7; Concerto for PF. and Orchestra, op. 8; Melody of the 100th Psalm, with 100 harmonies, op. 9; Twelve analysed Fugues, for two performers on piano and organ, op. 10; Introduction to Modulation, op. 11; Rondo on the Chord of the Diminished Seventh. He is also said to have published an orchestral symphony, 'The Shipwreck, or the Loss of the East Indiaman Halsewell,' a piece of programme-music quite in the taste of the time; songs, sonatas. He also proposed (1799) an edition of Bach's Wohltemperirtes Klavier.
15His son, (2) GEORGE AUGUST (b. 1780; d. Mar. 19, 1845), was a good organ player, and on his father's death succeeded to his post as organist. On his death his sister, (3) JOHANNA SOPHIA (d. May 1849), succeeded him; and on her death the post was bestowed on F. Weber.
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19KONINK, SERVAAS VAN (d. Amsterdam, ? 1720), a 17th-18th century Dutch composer who composed music to Racine's Athalia (1697), an opera, church music, motets, songs, trios for various instruments, dance tunes, flute sonatas, etc. (Mendel, Q.-L.).
21KONIUS, GEORGE EDWARDOVICH (b. Moscow, Sept 30, 1862), studied at the Conservatoire of his native town under Tanciev and Arensky. From 1891-99 he held a professorship at this institution. In 1902 he transferred his services to the Music School of the Philharmonic Society. He was subsequently professor and director of the Saratov Conservatoire, and since the revolution (1916) professor at Moscow Conservatoire. His chief works are: one of two readings
22KONIUS, GEORGE EDWARDOVICH (b. Moscow, Sept 30, 1862), studied at the Conservatoire of his native town under Taneiev and Arensky. From 1891-99 he held a professorship at this institution. In 1902 he transferred his services to the Music School of the Philharmonic Society. He was subsequently professor and director of the Saratov Conservatoire, and since the revolution (1916) professor at Moscow Conservatoire. His chief works are: one of two readings
24Orchestral suite, 'Child-life,' op. 1; Cantata in Memory of Alexander III., op. 8; Symphonic poem, 'From the World of Illusion,' op. 23; Symphonic poem, 'The Rustling Forest' (after Korolenko), op. 33; Ballet, 'Ialta' (Moscow, 1896); about twenty pieces for pianoforte, opp. 3, 4, 6, 7, 13, 16, 17, 18, 24; over thirty songs, opp. 2, 5, 9, 12, 14, 20, 22.
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28KONTSKI, DE, a family of virtuosi, of which (1) CHARLES, the eldest (b. Warsaw, Sept. 6, 1815; d. Paris, Aug. 27, 1867), appeared as a pianist in public at the age of 7, but, like the majority of prodigies, did not fulfil the promises of childhood. He made his first studies in Warsaw, and continued them at Paris, where he settled as teacher.
30(2) ANTOINE (b. Cracow, Oct. 27, 1817; d. Nowogrod, Lithuania, Dec. 7, 1899) was a clever pianist, a pupil of Field at Moscow. He possessed great delicacy of touch and brilliance of execution, but was a superficial musician. He composed many 'pièces de salon,' of which the 'Réveil du lion' (op. 115) became widely popular. He lived in Paris till 1851, then in Berlin till 1853, in St. Petersburg till 1867, when he settled in London, where an opera, 'Les Deux Distracts,' was given in 1872. He was in the United States in 1885, and later, and in 1896-1898 made a professional tour round the world, ending at Warsaw.
321 One number of the Wohltemperirtes Klavier was printed in this essay.
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