Cyrill Kistler

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Cyrill Kistler
Kistler bronze bust
in Bad Kissingen
Kistler grave
chapel cemetery, Bad Kissingen

Cyrill Kistler (born March 12, 1848 in Großaitingen , Swabia ; † January 1, 1907 in Bad Kissingen , Lower Franconia ) was a German composer , music theorist , music teacher and publisher .

Life

Kistler, who came from a Swabian family of craftsmen, attended the teachers' seminar in Lauingen (Swabia) from 1865 to 1867 . Then he was initially a teacher at various locations in Central Swabia. When he got tired of this existence, however, he switched to making music and composing. From 1876 to 1878 he studied organ and composition at the Royal Music School in Munich . a. with Josef Rheinberger . He then took over the teaching position for music theory at the Princely Conservatory in Sondershausen in 1883 . In 1876 he got to know Richard Wagner in Bayreuth , whose work had a lasting compositional influence on him.

Active in Bad Kissingen from 1884, he founded his own music school and from 1880 published the magazine “Musikalische Tagesfragen. Organ for musicians, music lovers and friends of the truth ” . This magazine existed for twelve years, with interruptions due to illness. He composed operas (e.g. “Baldur's Death” , “Die Kleinstädter” , “Kunihild” , “Der Schmied von Kochel” and “Eulenspiegel” ), secular and religious choirs, songs, organ and piano pieces. In 1904, Kistler's theory of harmony "The simple counterpoint and the simple fugue" appeared .

Through his work and the composition of more than 200 works, Kistler achieved a high level of recognition during his time. When Kistler premiered his “Eulenspiegel” opera in Würzburg in 1889 , Richard Strauss found the text “awkward” and “amusing”. He used Kistler's opera as an opportunity to compose his tone poem Till Eulenspiegel's funny pranks a few years later . Richard Wagner described his friend Kistler as his only worthy successor. One of his students was the pianist Mieczysław Horszowski . Today Kistler's music is largely forgotten.

His grave is in the chapel cemetery in Bad Kissingen.

Works (selection)

  • Music theory writings , 2nd edition, Verlag CF Schmidt, Heilbronn 1898–1904.
    • Volume 1: Harmony.
    • Volume 2: The simple counterpoint. The rule of three and two. The simple joint. (Rheinberger-Kistler system.)
    • Volume 3: The double counterpoint, the double fugue, the three-part and two-part fugue.
    • Volume 4: The three-, four- and five-part counterpoint. The highest art of polyphony. The fugue for three, four and five voices.
  • Three male choirs op. 34 (serenade; overnight; hunter's suffering). New edition 2016 Sonat-Verlag, Kleinmachnow
  • Festival march for large orchestra op.41
  • Great Fantasy for Concert Harmonium or Organ op.77
  • The Hexenküche (a symphonic poem based on Goethe's Faust ) op.130

Honors

  • In Bad Kissingen as well as in Großaitingen there is a Cyrill-Kistler-Weg .
  • In Großaitingen there is a memorial stone opposite the house where he was born.

literature

  • Thomas-M. Langner:  Kistler, Cyrill. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 11, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1977, ISBN 3-428-00192-3 , pp. 689 f. ( Digitized version ).
  • Gerhard Wulz: The chapel cemetery in Bad Kissingen. A guide with short biographies. City of Bad Kissingen, Bad Kissingen 2001, ISBN 3-934912-04-4 .
  • Hanns-Helmut Schnebel : Cyrill Kistler - sound poet and teacher ; in: "Bayerische Blasmusik" 49.6 (1998), VII
  • Peter Ziegler: The composer of the "Rhön sounds" Cyrill Kistler . In: "Rhön-Spiegel", Volume 24 (2007), Issue 1
  • Cyrill Kistler , obituary. In: "The Musical Times," Volume 48, No. 768, Feb. 1, 1907, page 111

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personal data
SURNAME Kistler, Cyrill
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kistler, Cyriak
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German composer, music theorist and music teacher
DATE OF BIRTH March 12, 1848
PLACE OF BIRTH Großaitingen , Swabia
DATE OF DEATH January 1, 1907
Place of death Bad Kissingen