Isfrid Kayser (1712-1771) - Cantata 'De uno Martyre' (1740)
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Composer: Isfrid Kayser (1712-1771)
Work: Cantata No.4 'De uno Martyre', Op.1 (1740)
Performers: MіchaeI VοIIe (bass); Chor der Unі Tübіngеn; SWR Sіnfonіeorchester
Painting: François van Loo (1708-1732) - The Flaying of Marsyas
Further info: https://www.jpc.de/jpcng/classic/detail/-/art/Sixt-Bachmann-1754-1825-Missa-Solemnis-in-C/hnum/7049831
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Isfrid Kayser
(Türkheim an der Wertach, 13 March 1712 - Kloster Obermarchtal, nr Ulm, 1 March 1771)
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 had become 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, Kayser 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.