Otto Kade (musicologist)

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Otto Kade, steel engraving by August Weger

Otto Kade (born May 6, 1819 in Dresden , † July 19, 1900 in Doberan ) was a German musicologist, organist, conductor and composer.

Life

After completing the Kreuzschule , Otto Kade studied harmony and counterpoint with the Kreuzkantor Julius Otto and Moritz Hauptmann in Dresden. A scholarship from the Saxon King Friedrich August II enabled him to continue piano and organ studies with Johann Gottlob Schneider . With the support of his uncle, the coin engraver Reinhard Krüger, he was able to make a year and a half trip to Italy , during which he researched music archives and, among other things, tracked down a mass by Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina in a monastery library and put it into a score.

Kades was particularly interested in this old church music, and he was one of the leading German music researchers in this field in the second half of the 19th century. Even before his trip to Italy, he had founded the Cäcilienverein for mixed choir in Dresden to perform older music . After his return he also worked as an organist at the orphanage church on Georgplatz (which was demolished in 1897) . In 1853 he became music director at the Dreikönigskirche .

In 1860 the Grand Duke Friedrich Franz II of Mecklenburg-Schwerin appointed him Grand Ducal Music Director and head of the castle choir in Schwerin, which was only founded in 1855. From 1866 he was also a singing teacher at the Gymnasium Fridericianum Schwerin . In 1893 he retired; Bernhard Romberg was his successor as court music director .

One of Kade's great achievements was the cataloging of the music, especially the court orchestra , owned by the Princely House, with which he laid the foundation for building up the Schwerin music library. In 1890 he ensured that the collection with around 70,000 notes came into the care of the government library since the end of the 17th century. Today it is part of the Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania State Library .

Another focus of his work was the editing and completion of August Wilhelm Ambros ' History of Music .

In 1869 he was co-founder and then author of the monthly magazine for music history for many years .

He had a son, Reinhard Kade (1859–1936), who became a teacher and later a senior teacher in Dresden, who had already supported him in cataloging the Schwerin music and who later worked as a music historian himself.

Awards

Works

  • Cantionale for the Evangelical Lutheran churches in the Grand Duchy of Mecklenburg-Schwerin. 4 volumes, 1868–1887.
  • Four-part chorale book for church, school and house to the melody book for the Mecklenburg church hymn book published by Grand Ducal order in 1867. 1869.
  • The newly found Luther Codex from 1530. 1871.
  • The twenty-five-year effectiveness of the grand ducal castle choir in Schwerin. A commemorative publication. Schwerin: Sandmeyer 1880
  • (Ed.) August Wilhelm Ambros: History of Music. 5 volumes, 1880–1882
  • The music collection of the Grand Ducal Mecklenburg-Schwerin Princely House over the past two centuries. 2 volumes, 1893.
Digitized version of Volume I in the Internet Archive
Digitized version of Volume II in the Internet Archive
  • [Addendum] The musical legacy of Her Royal Highness the widowed Hereditary Grand Duchess Auguste of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, née Princess of Hesse-Homburg . Wismar, Schwerin 1899 [repr. Hildesheim, New York 1974]
  • The older music from the city of Freiberg in Saxony. Edited by Reinhard Kade. Leipzig: Breitkopf & Härtel 1888 ( supplement to the monthly issues for music history ).
  • The older Passion composition up to 1631. Gütersloh 1893.

literature

Web links

Wikisource: Otto Kade  - Sources and full texts

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ NDB
  2. ↑ Entry on the state library in the manual for historical book holdings , section 1.12
  3. ↑ Details on the editions and proof of digital copies at Wikisource . There is also a detailed table of contents
personal data
SURNAME Kade, Otto
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German musicologist, organist, conductor and composer
DATE OF BIRTH May 6, 1819
PLACE OF BIRTH Dresden
DATE OF DEATH July 19, 1900
Place of death Doberan