Karl von Kaskel

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Karl Freiherr von Kaskel

Karl Freiherr von Kaskel (born October 10, 1866 in Dresden , † November 22, 1943 in Berlin ) was a German composer .

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He came from a Saxon banking family and was the son of Felix Freiherr von Kaskel . Kaskel attended high school in Zittau and began studying law in Leipzig . He later turned away from studying law and devoted himself entirely to studying musicology. At the Leipzig Conservatory he took piano and composition lessons from Salomon Jadassohn and Carl Reinecke . In Cologne he was tutored by Franz Wüllner . He lived in Dresden and from 1899 also in Munich , where he was teaching, at Georgenstrasse 5. After the National Socialist seizure of power , he lived in hiding in Berlin, where he died of a heart attack in his hiding place during a bomb attack.

Works

Kaskel set eight works for the stage, "Hochzeitsmorgen" (one-act opera, world premiere (premiere) 1893 in Hamburg ), "Sjula" (libretto by Axel Delmar , premiere 1895 in Cologne), "The beggar from Ponts des Arts" (premiere 1899 in Kassel) , The Dusle and the Babeli (libretto by Alexander M Kolloden and Wilhelm Schriefer, premiered in 1903 in Munich), "The Nightingale" (premiered in Stuttgart in 1910), as well as The Prisoner of the Tsarina in 1910 and The Smith of Kent ( Ralph Benatzky ) in 1916 in the Semperoper were premiered, the latter with Richard Tauber as Wat Tyler. Other works by Kaskel were u. a. a comedy overture, a humoresque and ballad for orchestra as well as piano pieces and songs.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Hagemeyer, p. 186 (8.19 Karl von Kaskel: The beggar from the Pont des Arts)

literature

  • Kerstin Hagemeyer: Jewish life in Dresden. Exhibition on the occasion of the consecration of the new Dresden synagogue on November 9, 2001 . Saxon State Library - Dresden State and University Library, Berlin 2002, ISBN 3-910005-27-6 .

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personal data
SURNAME Kaskel, Karl von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kaskel, Karl Freiherr von (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German composer
DATE OF BIRTH October 10, 1866
PLACE OF BIRTH Dresden
DATE OF DEATH November 22, 1943
Place of death Berlin