Isfrid Kayser

Isfrid Kayser OPraem (born March 13, 1712 in Türkheim , † March 1, 1771 in the Marchtal Monastery ) was a German composer and Premonstratensian .

Life

Throughout his life, Kayser was concerned with researching, perfecting and spreading baroque church music . As the son of an organist and schoolmaster, he spent almost his entire life under the roof of the Premonstratensian monastery in Marchtal . His music care and his clean compositional work made him a role model u. a. for Ildefons Haas .

Works

• Cantatae sacrae complectentes Arias XVIII. cum Recitativis, et Alleluja plerisque anni festivitatibus accommodatas à Voce sola, 2nd V., A. Va., et Org. [op. I], Munich a. Augsburg [around 1741], M. Rieger
• VI. Missae à 4. Vocibus ordinariis, C., A., T., B., 2. V. necessariis, 2. Lituis, vel Clarinis, cum Tympanis, ex diversis Clavibus ad Lib., Decore tamen concurrentibus, cum duplici Bc. Methodo facili, & moderna elaboratae, op. II, Augsburg 1743, M. Rieger
• Psalmi longiores, & breves in Vesperas de Dominica, BVM, Apostolis & c. & Sabbatho, distributi, cum reliquis Psalmis, per annum occurrentibus, ac Antiphonis Marianis. A quatuor Vocibus ordinariis, C., A., T., B., II.V. necessar. II. Lituis ac Tymp. ex diversis Clavibus ad Lib. colludentibus, Methodo facillima elaborati, op. III, ibid. 1746
• Concors Digitorum Discordia, see III. Parthiae Clavi- Cimbalo accommodatae, in Discipulorum aeque, ac Instructorum usum & utilitatem elaboratae, op. IV, ibid. 1746
• XII. Offertoria solemnia de Communi Sanctorum à IV. Vocibus, C., A., T., B., II.V. necessariis, II. Lituis ac Tymp. ex diversis Clavibus, ad Lib. concurrentibus, & Org., op. V. Pars prima, ibid. 1748
• XII. Offertoria solemnia breviora de Communi Sanctorum, una cum VIII. Benedictionibus pro Solemnitatibus Augustissimi Altaris Sacramenti, à IV. Vocibus, C., A., T., B., II.V. necessariis, II. Lituis, ac Tympano ex diversis Clavibus, ad Lib. concurrentibus, & Org., op. VI. Pars secunda, ibid. 1750
• III. Vesperae cum consuetis Antiphonis de Beatissima Virgine ac Gloriosissima Dei Genetrice Maria, à 4. Vocibus, & Instrumentis ordinariis, nimirum C., A., T., B., 2. V. necessariis, 2. Lituis, ac Tympanis, ex diversis Tonis ad Lib. Concurrentibus, Va. Ad Antiphonas solum obligata, cum Org., Op. VII [designated as "opus ultimum" in the dedication], ibid. 1754

Lost works

• 1737 choirs a. 1740 prologue m. Music f. the Wengen (after Ludwig Wilss)
• Prologue and choirs to Nao-Tsinus, Primus Aulae Sinicae Minister, performed on 1st and 2nd September 3, 1761 in Marchtal (after Paul Beck)
• According to the obituary, a composition for one of the spring devotions in the Congregatio maior in Munich and for a play at the end of the academic year at the University of Dillingen
• According to the description of the upper office, unprinted monastery annals (neither in the Fürstl. Thurn u. Taxis Central Arch. Regensburg nor in the State Arch. Sigmaringen)

Audio sample

• Concerto from Parthia No. 1 in D major played by Siegfried Gmeiner, Ulm on the organ of the Roggenburg monastery church

Concerto from Parthia No. 1 in D by Isfried Kayser. Played by Siegfried Gmeiner on the organ of the Roggenburg monastery.

expenditure

• Overture (op. 4, III / 1) in music of the Upper Swabian Baroque, ed. v. Ulrich Siegele, Bln. u. Darmstadt [1952, 2/1954], C. Merseburger, 5-7.

literature

• From the Baroque kingdom of heaven: Music from Upper Swabian monasteries; Andreas Heilinger (1746–1809), Salem - Isfrid Kayser (1712–1771), Marchtal - Nikolaus Betscher (1745–1811). Red on the red . Ed. Association for the Promotion of Music Oberschwabens eV, Biberach, Riss. Texts Michael G. Kaufmann . Biberach, Association for the Promotion of Music in Upper Swabia, 2002
• Johann Friedrich Christmann: Life story of Mr. P. Ildefons Haas . In: Musical correspondence of the Teutsche Filharmonische Gesellschaft for the year 1791 , Speyer 1791, 297–301 u. 305-310, on this 300th reprint 2000, ISBN 3-7952-0984-6
• Utto Kornmüller: The maintenance of music in the Benedictine order . Third article in Wiss. Stud. U. Communications from the Benedictine Order I , Brno 1880, 4th volume, 3–35, on this 26
• Description of the Oberamt Ehingen . Edited by the Kgl. State Statistical Office, Stuttgart 1893, 182
• Paul Beck: Monastery theater in Marchthal . In Diöcesan-Archiv von Schwaben, Vol. XII , Stuttgart 1894, 49–51, 61–63, 71f., 75f., 96;
• Max Seiffert: History of Piano Music, Vol, 1 . Leipzig 1899, Breitkopf & Härtel, 1899, pp. 339f.
• Martin Vogeleis: Sources and building blocks for a history of music and theater in Alsace 500 - 1800 . FX Le Roux & Co., Strasbourg 1911, p. 616
• William Barclay Squire: Catalog of Printed Music Published Between 1487 and 1800 now in the British Museum, Vol. I . London 1912, 752f.
• Ludwig Wilss: On the history of music in the Upper Swabian monasteries in the 18th century Stg. 1925, CL Schultheiss, 27f.
• Theodor Selig in: In der Heimat , supplement to the Danube messenger, Munderkingen 1934, No. 46
• Stefan Kriessmann: Series parochorum, order of the cath. Pastor of the Diocese of Rottenburg (Württ.), Compiled according to the deaneries . Altshausen (Württ.) 1950, self-published by the publisher, III Dekanat Ehingen, 23, XIX Dekanat Riedlingen, p. 56 u. 58
• Ulrich Siegele: Music of the Upper Swabian Baroque . In Der Barock, his organs and his music in Upper Swabia . Bln. u. Darmstadt [1952], C. Merseburger, 40-58. Publications of the Society of Organ Friends, 3.
• Wilhelm Jerger: The maintenance of music in the former Cistercian Abbey of St. Urban . In Die Musikforschung Vol. 7, 1954, 386-396, especially 392 u. 393
• Pirmin Vetter: Article P. Ildephons Haas in MGG Vol. V , pp. 1174-75. - Furthermore Catalogus mortuorum , Fürstl. Thurn- u. Taxis Central Arch. Regensburg, XIV. 129. 2.

Web links

• Literature by and about Isfrid Kayser in the catalog of the German National Library
• Works by and about Isfrid Kayser  in the German Digital Library
• Sheet music and audio files by Isfrid Kayser in the International Music Score Library Project
• Isfrid Kayser (Allgäu-Swabian Music Museum)