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Groves Dictionary Of Music And Musicians,vol.3, 1907
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1KUGELMANN
3etc., some of the latter of which were sung by her for the first time in public. She visited England in 1882, singing at the Popular Concerts, the Philharmonic, etc. On June 2, 1885, she married Edward Speyer, and retired from the regular exercise of her art.
5KUGELMANN, HANS (d. 1542), said to have been born at Augsburg, was in 1519 trumpeter at Innsbruck in the service of the Emperor Maximilian, and afterwards as first trumpet-major and then Kapellmeister at Königsberg in the service of Duke Albert of Brandenburg and Prussia. In 1540 he brought out a harmonised Gesangbuch for liturgical use in the Lutheran Church, one of the earliest of the kind after Johann Walther's book of 1524. Its title is:
7'Concentus novi trium vocum ecclesiarum usui in Prussia praecipue accomodati . . . News Gesang mit dreyen Stimmen dem Kirchen und Schulen zu nutz . . . auch etliche Stück mit 8, 6, 5, 4 Stim. hinuzugethan' . . . (Augsburg, 1540).
9It contains thirty-nine pieces, eight of them with Latin texts, including a Missa and Magnificat, mostly for three voices, thirty of them being the composition of Kugelmann himself. Towards the end there are a few more elaborate pieces. A complete Psalm by Stoltzer for five voices, another by Hans Heugel for six voices, etc. Kugelmann's book is the first source for the Choral-tunes, 'Nun lob mein' Seel' den Herrn' (of which there are three settings, a 3, a 5 and a 8), and 'Allein Gott in der Höh', this latter, however, being based on a Plain-song Gloria in Excelsis. Winterfeld, in his Evangelische Kirchenmusik, gives three of Kugelmann's pieces.
11J. R. M.
13KUHE, (1) WILHELM (b. Prague, Dec. 10, 1823; d. Kensington, Oct. 8, 1912), was taught music by Tomaschek, with Schulhoff as a fellow-student. He made a concert tour with great success in 1844-45 at Linz, Salzburg, Innsbruck, Augsburg, Munich and Stuttgart. He visited London with Pischek in 1845, and played with success at the Musical Union in Mayseder's trio, op. 52, May 13. He then lived in England (London and Brighton) after 1847. Kuhe showed great enterprise by the annual festival held by him at Brighton from 1870-82, wherein he encouraged native talent by the new works composed at his instance and produced by him. He frequently appeared in London, where he gave an annual concert for many years from 1846. He was appointed a professor of the R.A.M. in 1886, a post he resigned in 1904. His numerous compositions include many drawing-room pieces, fantasias and studies, viz. 'Lieder ohne Worte,' op. 12; 'Le Carillon,' op. 13; 'Chanson d'amour'; 'Romance sans paroles,' op. 17; 'Le Feu Follet,' op. 38; 'Victoria Fantasia on National Anthem'; 'Fantasia on Austrian Anthem'; operatic fantasias, etc. In 1896 his Musical Recollections was published by Bentley & Sons.
15A. C.
17His son (2) ERNEST is well known in London as a musical journalist, on the staff of the Daily Telegraph.
19KUHLAU, FRIEDRICH (b. Uelzen, Hanover, Sept. 11, 1786; d. Copenhagen, Mar. 12, 1832), a musician of some distinction in his day. He was born of poor parents, and had the misfortune to lose an eye at an early age. The loss did not, however, quench his ardour for music. During a wandering life he contrived to learn the piano and the flute, and to acquire a solid foundation of harmony and composition. He was, about 1800, in Hamburg, and previously in Brunswick. Germany was at that time under French rule, and to avoid the conscription he escaped to Copenhagen, where he became the first flute in the king's band. He then settled in Denmark, acquired a house in Lyngbye, near Copenhagen, to which he fetched his parents, composed half-a-dozen operas, was made professor of music and court composer, and enjoyed a very great popularity. In the autumn of 1825 he was at Vienna, and Seyfried has preserved a capital story of his expedition to Beethoven at Baden with a circle of choice friends, of the way in which the great composer dragged them at once into the open air, and of the jovial close of the day's proceedings. Kuhlau, inspired by champagne and the presence of Beethoven, extemporised a canon, to which Beethoven responded on the spot, but thought it wise to replace his first attempt next morning by another, which is one reiterated joke on the name of his guest (and, whether intentionally or not, on the name 'Bach')—
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23and was accompanied by the following note:
25BADEN, September 3, 1825.
27'I must confess that the champagne got too much into my head last night, and has once more shewn me that it rather confuses my wits than assists them; for though it is usually easy enough for me to give an answer on the spot, I declare I do not in the least recollect what I wrote last night. Think sometimes of your most faithful BEETHOVEN.'
29In 1830 Kuhlau suffered two irreparable losses—the destruction of the greater part of his manuscripts by fire, and the death of his parents. This double calamity affected his health, and he died at Copenhagen, leaving a mass of compositions, of which a few for flute and a few for piano are still esteemed.
31KUHNAU, JOHANN (b. Geising, Bohemia, Apr. 2 1660; d. June 25, 1722), a very remarkable musician, cantor of Leipzig, and one of the pillars of the German school of the clavier.
331 Beethoven's Studien, Anhang, p. 25. See also Beethoven's Letters (Nohl), No. 365.
342 Baptized Apr. 6, 1660.
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