Ett, Kaspar
Ett, Kaspar
Ett, Kaspar, German organist and composer; b. Eresing, Jan. 5, 1788; d. Munich, May 16, 1847. From 1816, he was court organist at St. Michael’s Church in Munich. He was active in reviving the church music of the 16th and 17th centuries; his own sacred compositions (of which but a few graduals and cantica sacra were printed) follow these early works in style. He composed 273 separate works. A complete enumeration is given inF. Bierling, Kaspar Ett (1906).
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