Cyrill Kistler

Cyrill Kistler ( born March 12, 1848 in Großaitingen, Swabia, † January 1, 1907 in Bad Kissingen, Lower Franconia ) was a German composer, music theorist, music teacher and publisher.

Life

Kistler, who came from a Swabian family of craftsmen, attended from 1865 to 1867 the teacher training college in Lauingen (Schwaben ). Subsequently, he was first a teacher at various locations in Central Swabia. However, when he had tired of this life, he devoted himself exclusively to the music and composing. He studied from 1876 to 1878 at the Royal School of Music in Munich, organ and composition, including with Josef Rheinberger. Then he took over in 1883 the teaching point for music theory at the Conservatory in princely Sondershausen. In 1876 he met Richard Wagner in Bayreuth know, of whose work he was strongly influenced compositionally.

From 1884 worked in Bad Kissingen, he founded his own music school and was from 1880 the magazine "Musical issues of the day. Organ for musicians, music lovers and friends of the truth " out. With disease-related disruptions this journal was twelve years. He composed operas ( eg " Baldur's Death ", " The small-town ", " Kunihild ", " Der Schmied von Kochel " and " Eulenspiegel " ), secular and sacred choruses, songs, organ and piano pieces. In 1904, Kistler appeared harmony " The simple counterpoint and ease of Fugue".

Through his work and the composition of more than 200 works Kistler earned a high reputation in his time. As Kistler in Würzburg his " Eulenspiegel " opera premiered in 1889, Richard Strauss was the text of " awkward " and " exhilarating ". He took Kistler's opera on the occasion, a few years later his tone poem Till Eulenspiegel's Merry Pranks to compose. Richard Wagner described his friend Kistler as his only worthy successor. One of his students was the pianist Mieczysław Horszowski. Today Kistler is music largely forgotten.

His grave is in the cemetery chapel in Bad Kissingen.

Works (selection)

• Music Theoretical writings, 2nd edition, published by CF Schmidt Heilbronn 1898-1904. Volume 1: Theory of Harmony.
• Volume 4: The three -, four - and five-part counterpoint. Highest art of polyphony. The gap to three, four and five voices.

Honors

• In Bad Kissingen as well as in Großaitingen there is a Cyrill Kistler - way.
• In Großaitingen stands opposite his birthplace memorial stone.