KALKBRENNER

kalkbrenner, friedrich wilhelm (1784-1849), german pianist and composer, son of christian kalkbrenner (1755-1806), a jewish musician of cassel, was educated at the paris conservatoire, and soon began to play in public. from 1814 to 1823 he was well known as a brilliant performer and a successful teacher in london, and then settled in paris, dying at enghien, near there, in 1849. he became a member of the paris piano-manufacturing firm of pleyel & co., and made a fortune by his business and his art combined. his numerous compositions are less remembered now than his instruction-book, with "studies," which have had considerable vogue among pianists.