Otto Kade (6 May 1819 – 19 July 1900) was a German

musicologist Musicology (from Greek μουσική ''mousikē'' 'music' and -λογια ''-logia'', 'domain of study') is the scholarly analysis and research-based study of music. Musicology departments traditionally belong to the humanities, although some mu ...

organist An organist is a musician who plays any type of organ (music), organ. An organist may play organ repertoire, solo organ works, play with an musical ensemble, ensemble or orchestra, or accompany one or more singers or instrumentalist, instrumental ...

, conductor and composer.

Life and career

Kade was born in Dresden. After graduating from the

Kreuzschule The ''Kreuzschule'' (German for "School of the Cross") in Dresden (also known by its Latin name, ''schola crucis'') is the oldest surviving school in Dresden and one of the oldest in Germany. As early as 1300, a schoolmaster (''Cunradus puerorum re ...

, Kade studied

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and

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with the Kreuzkantor and

Moritz Hauptmann Moritz Hauptmann (13 October 1792, Dresden – 3 January 1868, Leipzig), was a German music theorist, teacher and composer. His principal theoretical work is the 1853 ''Die Natur der Harmonie und der Metrik'' explores numerous topics, particular ...

in Dresden. A scholarship of the Saxon king

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enabled him to study further piano and organ with . With the support of his uncle, the coin engraver Reinhard Krüger, he could make a one-and-a-half year journey to Italy, on which he researched in music archives and among other things tracked down a mass by

Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina ( – 2 February 1594) was an Italian composer of late Renaissance music. The central representative of the Roman School, with Orlande de Lassus and Tomás Luis de Victoria, Palestrina is considered the leading ...

in a monastery library and brought it into a score. In 1869 he was a co-founder and then a long-time author of the '. Kade died in Doberan at age 81.

Publications

* ''Cantionale für die evangelisch-lutherischen Kirchen des Großherzogtums Mecklenburg-Schwerin.'' 4 volumes, 1868–1887. * ''Vierstimmiges Choralbuch für Kirche, Schule und Haus zu dem auf Grossherzoglichen Befehl 1867 erschienenen Melodieenbuche zu dem Mecklenburgischen Kirchengesangbuche.'' 1869. * ''Der neuaufgefundene Luther-Codex vom Jahre 1530.'' 1871. * ''Die fünfundzwanzigjährige Wirksamkeit des grossherzoglichen Schlosschores in Schwerin. Eine Festschrift.'' Schwerin: Sandmeyer 1880 * (editor) August Wilhelm Ambros: ''Geschichte der Musik.'' 5 volume, 1880–1882 * ''Die Musikalien-Sammlung des Großherzoglich Mecklenburg-Schwerinschen Fürstenhauses in den letzten zwei Jahrhunderten.'' 2 volumes, 1893.
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.'' Wismar, Schwerin 1899 epr. Hildesheim, New York 1974 * ''Die alteren Musikalien der Stadt Freiberg in Sachsen.'' Edited by von Reinhard Kade. Leipzig:

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1888 (''Beilage zu den Monatsheften für Musik-Geschichte''). * ''Die ältere Passionskomposition bis zum Jahre 1631.'' Gütersloh 1893.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Kade, Otto 1819 births 1900 deaths Musicians from Dresden German classical organists 19th-century classical musicians 19th-century organists 19th-century German musicologists

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