Grove's dictionary of music and musicians

EEINKEN EEISSIGER 59
St. George the Martyr, Bloomsbury. In 1759
he appeared aa a bass singer at Marylebone
Gai-dens, where he continued to sing for many
seasons. He afterwards performed in English
operas, and sang in oratorios, and at provincial
festivals, etc. He was especially famed for
his singing of Handel's song, ' ruddier than
the cherry.' He was one of the principal
bass singers at the Commemoration of Handel
in 1784. He retired in 1797, and died in
Somers Town, Sept. 29, 1815. See Musical
Times, 1877, p. 273. w. H. H.
KEINKEN, JoHANN Adam, or Jan Adams
Eeincken, eminent organist, bom at Wilshausen
in Lower Alsace, Api-il 27, 1623, a
pupil of Heinrioh Soheidemann, became in
that it still lives in you.' Two organ fugues,
a toccata in G, Variations on chorales and on a
'ballet, ' etc. are in MSS. at Dresden, Leipzig, and
Darmstadt. (See the Tijdschrift of the Vereeniging
voor N. -Nederlands Muziekgeschiedenis, vi.
pp. 151-8, the Quellen-Lexikon, etc.) A. M.
EEINTHALEE, Karl Martin, conductor
of the Private Concerts at Bremen, born Oct.
13, 1822, at Erfurt, was early trained in music
1 Spitta'8 Bach, Engl, transl. 1. 197-9.
by G. A. Eitter, then studied theology in
Berlin, but after passing his examination, devoted
himself entirely to music, and studied
with A. B. Marx. His first attempts at
composition, some psalms sung by the Cathedral
choir, attracted the attention of King Frederick
William IV., and procured him a travelling
grant. He visited Paris, Milan, Eome, and
Naples, taking lessons in singing from Geraldi
and Bordogni. On his retm-n in 1853 he
obtained a post in the Conservatorium of
Cologne, and in 1858 became organist in the
Cathedral of Bremen, and conductor of the
Singakademie. He had already composed an
oratorio, Jephta ' ' (performed in London by
HiiUah, April 16, 1856, and published with
English text by Novellos), and in 1875 his
opera
'
Edda ' was played with success at
Bremen, Hanover, and elsewhere. His
1654 organist of the church of St. Catherine at
Hamburg, and retained the post till his death,
KTov. 24, 1722, at the age of ninety-nine. He
was a person of some consideration at Hamburg,
'
Bismarck-hymn obtained ' the prize at Dortmund,
both on account of his fine playing, and of his
and he composed a symphony, and
beneficial influence on music in general, and a large number of part-songs. [He was a
the Hamburg opera in particular, but his vanity member of the Berlin Academy from 1882,
and jealousy of his brother artists are severely and had the title of Eoyal Professor in 1888.
commented on by his contemporaries. So great His cantata ' In der Wiiste ' had a great success,
and so widespread was his reputation that Sebastian
and his opera 'Kathchen von Heilbronn' re-
Bach frequently walked to Hamburg from ceived a prize at Frankfort. He retired from
Ltineburg (1700 to 1703), and Cothen (1720), the Singakademie in 1890, and died at Bremen,
to hear him play. Keinken may be considered Feb. 13, 1896.] F. a.
the best representative of the North-Gennan EEISSIGER, Karl Gottlieb, son of Christian
school of organists of the 17th century, whose
Gottlieb Eeissiger, who published three
strong points were, not the classic placidity of symphonies for full orchestra in 1790. Born
the South-German school, but great dexterity Jan. 31, 1798, at Belzig near Wittenberg,
of foot and finger, and ingenious combinations where his father was Cantor, he became in
of the stops. His compositions are loaded with 1811 a pupil of Sohicht at the Thomasschule,
passages for display, and are defective in form,
Leipzig. In 1818 he removed to the
bothin individual melodies and general construction.
University with the intention of studying
His works are very scarce ; Hortus theology, but some motets composed in 1815
'
Musicus,' for two violins, viol da gamba and and 1816 had already attracted attention, and
bass (Hamburg, 1704) is reprinted as No. the success of his fine baritone voice made him
XIII. of the publications of the Maatschappij determine to devote himself to music. In
tot bevordering der Toonkunst (Amsterdam, 1821, he went to Vienna and studied opera
1887). No. XIV. of the same publication consists
thoroughly. Here also he composed 'Das
of Reinken's 'Partite Diverse' (variations), Eockenweibohen.' In 1822 he sang an aria of
but even in MS. only very few pieces are Handel's, and played a PF. concerto of his own
known—two on Chorales, one Toccata, and composition at a concert in the Karnthnerthor
two sets of Variations (for Clavier). ^ Of the theatre. Soon after he went to Munich, where
first of these, one—on the chorale An Wasserflussen
Babylons' — is specially interesting, an opera.
' Dido,' which was performed several
he studied with Peter Winter, and composed
'
because it was by an extempore performance on times at Dresden under Weber's condnctorship.
that chorale at Hamburg in 1722 that Bach At the joint expense of the Prussian government
extorted from the venerable Eeinken the words, and of his patron von Altenstein, a musician,
he undertook a tour in 1824 through Holland,
'
I thought that this art was dead, but I see
France, and Italy, in order to report on the
condition of music in those countries. On his
return he was commissioned to draw up a
scheme for a Prussian national Conservatorium,
but at the same time was offered posts at the
Hague and at Dresden. The latter he accepted,
replacing Marschner at the opera, where he
laboured hard, producing both German and
Italian operas. In 1827 he succeeded C. M.
von AVeber as conductor of the German Opera