Johann Georg Kastner

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Johann Georg Kastner, 1867
Johann Georg Kastner. Etching by Wilhelm Krauskopf

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

Web links

Commons : Jean-Georges Kastner  - Collection of images, videos and audio files