# Otto Kade

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For the German linguist, see [Otto Adolf Wenzel Kade](/source/Otto_Adolf_Wenzel_Kade).

**Otto Kade** (6 May 1819 – 19 July 1900) was a German [musicologist](/source/Musicology), [organist](/source/Organist), [conductor](/source/Conducting) and composer.

## Life and career

Kade was born in Dresden. After graduating from the [Kreuzschule](/source/Kreuzschule), Kade studied [harmony](/source/Harmony) and [counterpoint](/source/Counterpoint) with the [Kreuzkantor](/source/Kreuzkantor) [Ernst Julius Otto](/source/Ernst_Julius_Otto) and [Moritz Hauptmann](/source/Moritz_Hauptmann) in Dresden. A scholarship of the Saxon king [Frederick Augustus II of Saxony](/source/Frederick_Augustus_II_of_Saxony) enabled him to study further piano and organ with [Johann Gottlob Schneider junior](/source/Johann_Gottlob_Schneider_junior). With the support of his uncle, the coin engraver Reinhard Krüger, he could make a one-and-a-half year journey to Italy, on which he researched in music archives and among other things tracked down a mass by [Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina](/source/Giovanni_Pierluigi_da_Palestrina) in a monastery library and brought it into a score.

In 1869 he was a co-founder and then a long-time author of the *[Monatshefte für Musik-Geschichte](/source/Monatshefte_f%C3%BCr_Musik-Geschichte)*.

Kade died in [Doberan](/source/Bad_Doberan) at age 81.

## Publications

- *Cantionale für die evangelisch-lutherischen Kirchen des Großherzogtums Mecklenburg-Schwerin.* 4 volumes, 1868–1887.
- *Vierstimmiges Choralbuch für Kirche, Schule und Haus zu dem auf Grossherzoglichen Befehl 1867 erschienenen Melodieenbuche zu dem Mecklenburgischen Kirchengesangbuche.* 1869.
- *Der neuaufgefundene Luther-Codex vom Jahre 1530.* 1871.
- *Die fünfundzwanzigjährige Wirksamkeit des grossherzoglichen Schlosschores in Schwerin. Eine Festschrift.* Schwerin: Sandmeyer 1880
- (editor) August Wilhelm Ambros: *Geschichte der Musik.* 5 volume, 1880–1882
- *Die Musikalien-Sammlung des Großherzoglich Mecklenburg-Schwerinschen Fürstenhauses in den letzten zwei Jahrhunderten.* 2 volumes, 1893.

- [Digitalisat von Band I](http://archive.org/details/diemusikaliensa00unkngoog) on [Internet Archive](/source/Internet_Archive)
- [Digitalisat von Band II](http://archive.org/details/diemusikaliensa00regigoog) on Internet Archive

- [addendum] *Der musikalische Nachlaß weiland Ihrer Königlichen Hoheit der verwitweten Frau Erbgrossherzogin [Landgravine Auguste of Hesse-Homburg](/source/Landgravine_Auguste_of_Hesse-Homburg).* Wismar, Schwerin 1899 [repr. Hildesheim, New York 1974]
- *Die alteren Musikalien der Stadt Freiberg in Sachsen.* Edited by von Reinhard Kade. Leipzig: [Breitkopf & Härtel](/source/Breitkopf_%26_H%C3%A4rtel) 1888 (*Beilage zu den Monatsheften für Musik-Geschichte*).
- *Die ältere Passionskomposition bis zum Jahre 1631.* Gütersloh 1893.

## Further reading

- Reinhard Kade: *Otto Kade †.* In: *Monatshefte für Musikgeschichte* 32 (1900), [169](https://books.google.com/books?id=mucLAQAAMAAJ&pg=RA1-PA169)–172
- Grewolls, Grete (2011). *Wer war wer in Mecklenburg und Vorpommern. Das Personenlexikon* (in German). Rostock: Hinstorff Verlag. pp. 4742–4743. ISBN 978-3-356-01301-6.

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