DICTIONARY OF MUSIC - El Atril

KEOLANTHE KES 567
KEOLANTHE, or The Unearthly Bride.
Grand opera in two acts ; words by Fitzball, music
by Balfe. Produced at English Opera House,
March 9, 1841. G.
KEPER, John, of Hart Hall, Oxford, who
graduated as M.A. Feb. 11, 1569, produced in
1574 '
Select Psalms in fom- parts.'
KEEAULOPHON" (from KepaiXys,
w. H. H.
a hornblower,
and (puivi), a voice). An 8-foot Organ
Manual Stop, of a reedy and pleasant nuality
of tone. It was invented by Jlessrs. Gray k
Davison, and used by them for the hrst time in
1S43 in the organ they made for St. Paul's
Church, Wilton Place. An e.^ample was introduced
by the French hrm of Ducroquet into
their organ at St. Eustache, Paris, erected in
1854. E. .J. H.
KERL (KERLL, or CHERLL), Johann
C-ASPAR,' celebrated organist, born in 1628, as is
to be concluded from the Mortuarium of the old
Augustine church of Munich. Mattheson's
Ehrcnpforte contains the only details known of
his life. He came early to Vienna, and learnt
the organ from Valentini, then organist, afterwards
capellmeister to the Court, on whose
recommendation Ferdinand III. sent him to
Rome to study under Carissinii. In all proba-
bility he also learnt from Frescobaldi, possibly
at the same time as his countryman Froberger.
Having returned to Germany he entered the
service of the Bavarian Elector on Feb. 22,
1656, and in that capacity was piresent at the
coronation of Leopold I. at Frankfort (July 22,
1658), where he is said to have been presented
by Schmelzer, vice -court -capellmeister, to the
Emperor, and invited to improvise on a given
theme in presence of the court. Some doubt is
thrown on this by the fact that Schmelzer did
not become vice-capellmeister till Jan. 1, 1671 ;
but he may well have been in attendance on the
Emperor at Frankfort, and at any rate Kerl's
reputation as an organist dates from the coronation.
Kerl remained at JIunich until 1674. For
the Italian singers there he composed a ' Missa
nigra,' entirely \\Titten in black notes, and a duet
for two castrati ' bone Jesu, ' the oidy accompaniment
of which is a ground bass passing
through all the ke\'s. Besides other church
works, sonatas for two violins and a viol da
gamba, and a ' Modulatio organica super Magnificat
' (Munich, 1686), Mattheson mentions
toccatas, canzonas, ricercars, and batailles of his
composition for the organ. In 1674 he threw
up his post and went to Vienna, where he subsisted
by giving lessons at what was then a high
scale of remuneration. [He was appointed Court
Organist there in 1677, and seems to have retained
the post until 1692, when it is supposed
that he returned to Munich.] He died there
on Feb. 13, 1693. His tomb, showing this date,
was formerly in the Augustine church, but that
is now the custom-house, and the tomb is no
' >"ot von Kerl. as many dictionaries aay.
longer discoverable. [The epitaph is given in
the Quel !en -Lej:ikon.~\ His style is remarkable
for the frequent introduction of discords re-
solved in a new and unexpected manner, in
which respect he is deservedly considered a
predecessor of Sebastian Bach. He wrote the
music of the operas ' Oroute,' 1657 ;
' Erinto,'
1661 ; of the serenata in honour of the birthday
of the wife of the Elector (Nov. 6, 1661),
'Lepiretensioni del Sole': and of 'I colori geniali'
(1668). One of his canzonas has been preserved
to the world in a singular but most efficient
way—owing to its insertion hy Handel in ' Israel
in Egypt ' to the words ' Egj'pt was glad when
they departed.' Hawkins gives the canzona in
its original form in his History, chap. 124.
His masses and 'motets are catalogued in the
Quellen-Lexikon, as well as his other compositions
in MS. A toccata in C is given in Pauer's
' Alte Cla-idermusik, ' vol. iii. r. G.
KERLE, Jacob ya.v, a Flemish master of
the sixteenth century, was born at Ypres, but
appears to have spent the earlier part of his
musical career in Italy, whence the dedications
of his earlier works from 1558 are dated. From
1562 to 1575 he was in the service of the
Cardinal-Arclibishop> of Augsburg,—Otto von
Truchsess, — partly in Rome and partly in Augsburg.
He is said to have accompanied the
Cardinal to the later sessions of the Council of
Trent, 1562-63, and at any rate was commis-
sioned by him to compose the music for a set of
special prayers on behalf of the Council (see
title below). He afterwards obtained a canonry
at Cambrai, which he continued to hold while
also in the service of the Emperor Rudolf at
Vienna and Prag (1583 and 1585). His works
are :
1. Hymni totius anni, etc.-, a 4, Rome, 1558. 23 u.
2. ftla^iticat octo tonum, a 4. Venice, 1561.
3. Sexnjiasae. a 4ami5. Venice, 1562. Dedicated to Duke Albert
of Bavaria. It is in the title of this worlt Kerle is described as
composer to the Cardinal of Augsburg.
4. Preces apeciales pro aalubri generalia concilil successu et couclusione,
populique Christiani salute ac unione, etc. 10 Reaponsoria.
a 4. Venice. 1562,
5. Cantiones Sacrac, a 5 and 6. Numberf^, 1571, 14 Motets and 2
Te Deums,
6. Liber modulorum sacronim. 5and6voc,, quibus addita est recens
csntio. 8 voc. , de
sacro foedere contra Turcas (this last composition
being a thanicagiving for the victory at Lepauto over the Turks),
Munich, 1,572,
7. Two other Books of Motets, a 4-6. .33 n. Munich, 1573,
8. Cantiones Sacrac, a 5 and 6. Munich, 1,575. 9 n.
9. 4 Missae, a 4 with Te Deum, a 5, Plantin, Antwerp, 1583 (this
work a reprint'.
10. Aliquot Moduli, a 4-S, etc, Prag, 15S5, Te Deum, Magnificat,
Asperges and motets.
Ambros speaks very highly of Kerle's masses
and motets. While still belonging to the older
school of composition, they have a character of
their own of grandeur and power. Proske's
Musica Divina contains a vigorous motet by
Kerle ,
' Exurge
quare obdormis Domine. ' Malde-
ghem in his Tresor has reprinted three masses,
a Te Deum, and a few motets. j. e. m.
KES, WiLLEM, violinist and conductor, was
born at Dordrecht, Holland, on Feb. 16, 1856.
Studied with many professors, at first under
Tyssens, Nothdurft, and Ferdinand Bbhm, and
then, provided with a stipend by the King of