Richard Kaden

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Richard Ferdinand Kaden (born February 10, 1856 in Dresden ; † July 9, 1923 there ) was a German musician (violin, viola), music teacher , music writer and composer .

Life

Richard Kaden came from a mining family in Freiberg . In 1856 he was born as one of two sons - Richard's brother became major - of the ministerial treasurer Moritz Ferdinand Kaden (d. 1921) and his wife Emilie Geyer in the royal Saxon capital and residence city of Dresden. His father, who had initially been a miner himself, then served as a drum in the Royal Saxon Army . As a soldier, he experienced the German Revolution of 1848/1849 . When he left the army, he followed a superior into the management of a private railway company. After the nationalization he made it to the ministry in Dresden as a subordinate .

Kaden attended the 1st community school in his hometown. While still a schoolboy, he began training at the Royal Conservatory in Dresden (until 1877). His teachers included u. a. Concertmaster Ferdinand Hüllweck and later Johann Christoph Lauterbach in violin and Carl Heinrich Döring in piano, Julius Rietz in theory and composition, Wilhelm Rischbieter in counterpoint and Julius Rühlmann in music history. At the age of fourteen he became a violinist in the Buffold City Orchestra. At fifteen he was "second fiddle boss". After the town band was dissolved, he was violist of the Royal Saxon musical band from 1872 to 1896 . In 1888 he was appointed to the Bayreuth Festival Orchestra .

During his activity as a musician he became a listener at the Royal Saxon Polytechnic in Dresden . There he studied philosophy and education (with Friedrich Schulze) as well as psychology. He received further inspiration from Paul Hohlfeld , editor of the writings of Karl Christian Friedrich Krause and later scientific director of the Pedagogical Music School.

From 1872 to 1883 he was hired as a violin and ensemble teacher at the Dresden Conservatory. In 1883 he became artistic director of the reform-oriented private “Pedagogical Music School in Dresden”, which was founded by his pupil and later wife Vera von Mertschinskis and existed until 1931. There were u. a. Henri Marteau and Karl Panzner his students. He is also considered the spiritus rector of the music teacher Fritz Reuter . In addition, he was chairman of the Dresden and 2nd chairman of the Saxon Music School Directors Association. There he brought u. a. together with Hugo Riemann , Julius Klengel and Hermann Vetter an examination regulations (from 1913) for music teachers on the way.

He has written articles ( Der Kunstwart , Neue Zeitschrift für Musik , Musikalisches Wochenblatt, etc.) on music-pedagogical and aesthetic topics. With his manuscript School of Music Education (1892) he wanted to create “a scientifically based system of music education” (Siegfried Freitag). Kaden gave lectures on music, philosophy and education, for example within the framework of the Literary Society in Dresden, of which he was a member. He was also a member of the Dresden Freemason Lodge "To the golden apple".

Kaden also emerged as a composer, so he created a. a. several violin works and a symphony. He also worked on the Baillot violin school.

family

In his first marriage (from 1879) he was married to the preacher's daughter Franziska Boeck from Danzig. His second wife was from 1909 Vera von Mertschinski, daughter of the Russian titular council and educator of Count Shuvalov in St. Petersburg. Kaden had one child: Elsa (born 1882). He died of severe pneumonia in Dresden in 1923 .

Awards

He was a bearer of the Knight's Cross, 2nd class of the Albrecht Order .

Fonts (selection)

  • Parsifal in the light of the zeitgeist . 2nd edition, Kaufmann, Dresden 1914.

literature

  • Hermann Abert (Hrsg.): Illustrated Music Lexicon . J. Engelhorns Nachf., Stuttgart 1927.
  • Herrmann AL Degener (Ed.): Who is it? Our contemporaries . 8th edition, Degener, Leipzig 1922.
  • Paul Frank, Wilhelm Altmann : Concise Tonkünstlerlexikon. For musicians and friends of music . 12, very expanded edition, Carl Merseburger, Leipzig 1926.
  • Siegfried Freitag: Richard Kaden (1856–1923) and his reform efforts in the field of private music schools . In: Rudolf-Dieter Kraemer (Ed.): Music pedagogical biography research. Technical history - contemporary history - life history (= music pedagogical research . Vol. 18). Verlag Die Blaue Eule, Essen 1997, ISBN 978-3-89206-828-0 , pp. 64–72.
  • Friedrich Jansa (Hrsg.): German sound artists and musicians in words and pictures . 2nd edition, published by Friedrich Jansa, Leipzig 1911.
  • Fritz Reuter : Richard Kaden (1856-1923) . In: Zeitschrift für Musik 90 (1923) 17, pp. 10-14.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Alfred Sous : The Bayreuth Festival Orchestra. History, stories and anecdotes from then to now. Lienau, Berlin 1997, ISBN 3-87484-125-1 , p. 146.
  2. Walter Clemens, Werner Busch: In memory of Fritz Reuter . In: Heinz Wegener (Red. Ed.): Gedenkschrift Fritz Reuter (= scientific journal of the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. Society and linguistic series 15 (1966) 3). S. I-VI, here: SI
  3. ^ Siegfried Freitag: Richard Kaden (1856–1923) and his reform efforts in the field of private music schools . In: Rudolf-Dieter Kraemer (Ed.): Music pedagogical biography research. Technical history - contemporary history - life history (= music pedagogical research . Vol. 18). Verlag Die Blaue Eule, Essen 1997, ISBN 978-3-89206-828-0 , pp. 64–72, here: p. 64.
  4. Frank Almai, Rolf Parr : Literary club to Dresden. In: Wulf Wülfing, Karin Bruns, Rolf Parr (eds.): Handbook of literary-cultural associations, groups and groups 1825–1933 (= Repertories on German literary history . Vol. 18). Metzler, Stuttgart a. a. 1998, ISBN 978-3-476-01336-1 , pp. 269-294, here: p. 286.