KAHRER-RAPPOLDI, MME. See vol. iii. A b

KALKBRENNER, F. W. Line 3 of article, the date of birth should probably be corrected to 1784.

KAMMERTON. See Chorton in Appendix.

KAPSBERGER, J. H. See vol. iv. p. 264 b, note 3.

KASTNER, Johann Georg, born at Strassburg March 9, 1810. He was destined to theology; but music conquered, and the successful performance of his opera, ‘Die Königin der Sarmaten,’ induced the town council of Strassburg to grant him the means of going to Paris in 1835, where he finished his studies under Berton and Reicha, and resided till his death there Dec. 19, 1867. In 1837 he published his Treatise on Instrumentation, the first work of the kind in France, and the beginning of a long series of elementary treatises. He was not less fruitful as a composer of operas:–‘Beatrice’ (German), 1839; ‘La Maschera,’ at the Opéra Comique, 1841; ‘Le dernier Roi de Juda,’ his best work, given at the Conservatoire, 1844; ‘Les Nonnes de Robert-le-Diable,’ 1845, and a number of vocal and instrumental compositions large and small, including his ‘Livres-Partitions,’ half music, half treatises. Besides the numerous works enumerated below, Kastner was a voluminous contributor to the ‘Gazette Musicale,’ the ‘Ménestrel,’ and the ‘Revue étrangère,’ as well as to the German periodicals, ‘Iris,’ ‘Allg. musikalische Zeitung,’ ‘Neue Zeitschrift,’ ‘Cecilia,’ and many others.