Kaspar Kummer
Kaspar Johann Kummer[1] (1795–1870) was a German flautist, professor and composer.
Kummer was born 10 December 1795 in Erlau in Thuringia (in Sankt Kilian.) [2] He taught himself the flute while learning violin, horn, trumpet, clarinet, bassoon, oboe, cello and double bassoon.[3]
Kummer was taught by Neumeister for a year, then took training in music theory from the Cantor of Schleusingen, Gottlob Abraham Stäps. From 1835, he worked as a flautist at the chapel of the Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, and took over direction of their orchestra in 1854.[4]
His published compositions ran to over 150 opus numbers, mostly involving the flute, but also including lieder, etc.
He also had several students, including Friedrich Kiel[5] and Felix Draeseke.[6]
He died in May 1870, probably 21 May, in Coburg.[2]
Notes
- ↑ sometimes Caspar or Gaspard. Spelling, in publications and otherwise, was not so very fixed!
- 1 2 Musicsack - http://www.musicsack.com/PersonFMTDetail.cfm?PersonPK=100007153 - has Erlau, Scheusingen, Hungary. Thuringia from German Wikipedia.
- ↑ German Wikipedia. Note that there are bassoon works by a "G. Kummer" (which have been uploaded to IMSLP), but they are not generally or probably by "Gaspard" Kummer but rather by his contemporary, a bassoonist Gotthelf Kummer. (The trouble with initials.)
- ↑ German Wikipedia.
- ↑ "Friedrich Kiel (Obituary)". The Monthly Musical Record XV (178). October 1, 1885. Retrieved January 26, 2014.
- ↑ "Nachlass Felix Draeseke" (in German). SLUB Dresden. Retrieved January 26, 2014.
Further reading
- Fürstenau, Moritz. Allegemeine Deutsche Biographie (Wikisource. From Band 17, 1883. In German.)
External links
- Free scores by Kaspar Kummer at the International Music Score Library Project (compositions, partial worklist)
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