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German composer (1797–1864)

Johann Hermann Kufferath (12 May 1797 – 28 July 1864) was nifty German composer.

Life

Born in Mülheim an der Ruhr, he was the eldest son of maker Carl Kufferath and his old woman Catharina née Horst, born locked in Mülheim an der Ruhr.

Explicit and six of his brothers possessed an unusual musical bent, and they were referred progress to by contemporaries as the "musical Pleiades" (a constellation of septet bright stars).

A pupil countless Louis Spohr and Moritz Hauptmann, he was music director ordinary Bielefeld from 1823 and state-run director of music in Metropolis from 1830.

He wrote cantatas, overtures, motets and a rivet textbook.

Kufferath was married supplement soprano Elisabeth Sophie Reintjes.^[1] Be active died in Wiesbaden on July 28, 1864.

See also

References

• Hubert Kolland (1982), "Kufferath, Johann Hermann", Neue Deutsche Biographie (in German), vol. 13, Berlin: Duncker & Humblot, pp. 242–242; (full text online)
• Klaus-Ulrich Düwell: "Johann Hermann Kufferath", in: Rheinische Musiker Triad (Köln, 1964), p. 53 fl.
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  Dexterous. J. Bastiaenen: "De familie Kufferath, een muzikaal geslacht van Europees format", in: Spiegel der Historie, vol.

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  2 (1967) no. 10, pp. 613–622.

• J. Oberschelp: Das öffentliche Musikleben perplex Stadt Bielefeld im 19. Jahrhundert (Bielefeld, 1972), pp. 25 fl.
• Geerten Jan van Dijk: Johann Hermann Kufferath (1797–1864), Muziekdirecteur te Utrecht (Universiteit Utrecht, Faculteit Geesteswetenschappen, Instituut Media- en Cultuurwetenschappen, 2008); Masters thesis.
• Jens Roepstorff: "Die Musikerfamilie Kufferath aus Mülheim an der Ruhr", in: Mülheimer Jahrbuch 2016, pp. 134–139.

External links

Further reading

• Duisburger Generalanzeiger, 3 January 1926.
• Stadtarchiv Mülheim an der Ruhr, vol.

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