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About Karl Freiherr von Kaskel
cf.: http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_von_Kaskel
&: http://saebi.isgv.de/biografie/Karl_von_Kaskel_(1866-1943)
Karl Freiherr von Kaskel (born October 10, 1866 in Dresden , † November 22, 1943 in Berlin ) was a German composer .
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 . Later, he turned away from law school and devoted himself entirely to the study of musicology. At the Conservatory Leipzig he took lessons in piano and composition from Salomon Jadassohn and Carl Reinecke . In Cologne he was taught by Franz Wüllner . He lived in Dresden and from 1899 also in Munich , where he held a teaching job in the Georgenstraße5. After the National Socialist seizure of power , he lived hidden in Berlin, where he died during a bomb attack of a heart attack in his hiding place.
Kaskel set to eight stage works, "Wedding Morning " (one-act opera, world premiere in 1893 in Hamburg ), "Sjula" (Libretto by Axel Delmar , UA 1895 in Cologne), "The beggar of Ponts des Arts" (UA 1899 in Kassel) , [1] "The Dusle and the Babeli" (UA 1903 in Munich), "The Nightingale" (UA 1910 in Stuttgart), as well as The Prisoner of the Czarina 1910 and The Smith of Kent ( Ralph Benatzky ) were premiered in 1916 in the Semperoper the latter with Richard Tauber as Wat Tyler. Other works by Kaskel were u. a. a comedy, a humoresque and ballad for orchestra as well as piano pieces and songs.
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Karl Freiherr von Kaskel's Timeline
| 1866 |
October 10, 1866
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Dresden, Saxony, Germany
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| 1900 |
April 27, 1900
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Munich, Bavaria, Germany
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| 1905 |
May 9, 1905
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Dresden, Dresden Government Region, Saxony, Germany
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| 1943 |
November 21, 1943
Age 77
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Berlin, Germany
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