Kastner, Johann Georg

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,...