Kaspar Fürstenau was a German

Germany

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 flautist

Flautist

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 and composer

Composer

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. He wrote about sixty compositions for his instrument among rondo

Rondo

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s, fantasia

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s, suite

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s and concerto

Concerto

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s. Together with his son Anton Bernhard Fürstenau

Anton Bernhard Fürstenau

Anton Bernhard Fürstenau was a German flutist and composer. He was the most famous virtuoso in Germany on his instrument and the most important Romantic flutist of the first half of the nineteenth century...

 he traveled extensively around Europe always with acclaimed success.

Life

Kaspar Fürstenau received his first musical instruction from his father, an oboist

Oboist

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 of the court orchestra of the Bishopric

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 of Münster. After his father's death his employer, the prince bishop of Münster Maximilian Friedrich von Königsegg-Rothenfels, organized further training to him with the fagot

Bassoon

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 teacher Bernhard Anton Romberg.

Fürstenau was booked in 1788 by Maximilian Friedrich's successor, Archduke Maximilian Francis of Austria

Archduke Maximilian Francis of Austria

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, in whose court chapel he stayed. Then there the flautist Josef Antoni became among other things his teacher. From 1793 Furstenau was again sent by his employer on study trips to the courts of London

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, Paris

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 and Vienna

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, to become a member of the court chapel of Augustus, Grand Duke of Oldenburg

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, who was for some time his teacher from 1794.

Literature

• Virneisel, Wilhelm: Kaspar Fürstenau. In: Die Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart, Lfg. 34/35 (1955)

External links

• German Wikisource has original text related to this article: Kaspar Fürstenau