KASTNER, kiist'ner, JOHANN GEORG (1810 E17). A German composer and musical theorist. Ile was horn at Stras.sburg, and studied under Maurer and Bonier. He composed four operas, austar Masa (18:32) ; Dcr Tod Dscurs (1833) ; Der Sara;:cne (15:34) ; and Die Innroignm dcr matut (1835) ; and then went to Paris to eon tinue his studies under Berton and Rei•ha. There Kastner undertook recondite researches. published treatises on instrumentation. vocalization. etc., composed operas, and became famm9; as a teacher. Ile was founder and vice-president of the Asso ciation des Artistes-musieiens, the recipient of many honors, and an officer of the Legion of Honor. Many of his text-books were approved by the Academy, and used in the Conserva tory, among them his treatise on instrumenta tion (1837), which remained the standard till the appearance of Berlioz's monumental work some thirty years later. Perhaps his most orig inal work was the LIrrcs-partitions, a series of vocal and instrumental symphony eantatas, Whose carious subjects are described and analyzed in accompanying essays. The subdivisions of this
were: Les douses. des omits (1852) ; La harpe d'L'etc et la musique cosonique (1856) ; Les i•oix de Paris, and its sequel, Lcs cris de Paris ( 1857 ) ; Les Nir6ics (1858) ; and Parentiologie musimle de la Maga( froncuise (1362). ln addition to the operas already mentioned he composed.: Bel/trio. (1839) ; La nois•hcra (1841): and the biblical opera Le (lc ruler roi de dada (concert performance, 1814), whieh is considered his mas teridece; and nmeh instrumental music. Con sult: FC.tis. Biographic unircrsclle des musi•icns, et bibliographic gery'rale (le la to usique ( Brus sels, 1837-81) ; Ludwig, Johann Georg kastner, cis elsassischor Tondiclttcr, Throretiker and .Iln aaforsc/tcr (3 vols., Leipzig, 1886).