Isfrid Kayser (1712-1771)
- Parthia I
Performers: Jürgеn Essl (orgel)
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German composer. He was the son of the village organist and schoolmaster
at Türkheim, who gave him the earliest musical education. He went to
school in Munich and in 1732 entered the Premonstratensian monastery of
Marchtal. Marchtal was one of a group of Swabian monasteries, mainly
Premonstratensian and Benedictine, where music was extensively
cultivated in the 18th century. By 1741 he was promoted director of
music, a post he held for about ten years. From about 1750 onwards he
worked as parish priest in nearby villages. In 1761 he returned to
Marchtal, becoming sub-prior in 1763. In his lifetime, he was one of the
best-known of the Bavarian church composers. Thanks to him, Marchtal
had so high a reputation for music that Marie Antoinette visited it on a
journey to France. On a more local level, he had connections in such
musical centres as Ulm and Munich. He seems to have taught composers
elsewhere by correspondence.
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