Johann Georg Kastner
Johann Georg Kastner (French also Jean-Georges Kastner , born March 9, 1810 in Strasbourg , † December 19, 1867 in Paris ) was a German- French composer and music writer.
Life
Kastner's parents were Johann Georg Kastner from Dettwiller , a baker in Strasbourg since 1803, and his wife Marie Salome nee. Pfeiffer from Woerth .
Kastner studied despite its tendency to music on his father's wish at the University of Strasbourg from 1827 to 1832 theology . After the premiere of his opera The Queen of the Sarmatians in Strasbourg in 1835, the City Council granted him a scholarship at the Paris Conservatory . From 1835 Kastner studied there with Anton Reicha and Henri Montan Berton .
On May 16, 1837, he married his pupil Léonie Boursault in Paris . Since this was very wealthy, he was able to practice his profession from now on without financial worries. A son from this marriage was Frédéric Kastner , the inventor of the pyrophone .
Fonts (selection)
- Traité général d'instrumentation , 1837
- Manuel général de musique militaire , 1848
- Les danses des morts [...]. , Paris 1852
Works (selection)
- La Maschera , comic opera, 1841 - text book (digitized)
- Le dernier roi de Juda , Oratory, 1844
- Livres partitions (with La danse macabre , 1852; Les chants de la vie , 1854; Le chant de l'armée française , 1855; Les cris de Paris , 1857; La rève d'Oswald on les sirènes , 1856).
Kastner also included German elements such as choral singing in his French-shaped works .
literature
- Hermann Ludwig von Jan: Johann Georg Kastner, an Alsatian sound poet, theorist and music researcher - his becoming and work . 3 volumes. Breitkopf & Härtel , Leipzig 1886 (digital copies at Internet Archive : Volume 1 , Volume 2, Part 1 , Volume 2, Part 2 ).
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SURNAME | Kastner, Johann Georg |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Kastner, Jean-Georges |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German-French composer and music writer |
DATE OF BIRTH | March 9, 1810 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Strasbourg |
DATE OF DEATH | December 19, 1867 |
Place of death | Paris |