Friedrich Kiel

Friedrich Kiel was a German composer and music educator.

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Friedrich Kiel was known as an influential teacher, with several notable musicians studying theory under him. According to A Biographical Dictionary of Musicians (1900), the pianist and composer Leonhard Emil Bach was a pupil of Kiel for theory, later becoming a teacher at Kullak’s Academy in Berlin and court pianist to Prince George of Prussia. Similarly, Oscar Eichberg, a German pianist and composer, also studied under F. Kiel, as recorded in the same 1900 dictionary. Brown’s Biographical Dictionary (1886) further notes that English organist and composer John Maude Crament studied under Kiel, among others. Kiel himself was a distinguished pupil of Moritz Hauptmann, who, according to Brown’s Biographical Dictionary (1886), “stood unrivalled in his time” as a theorist and teacher, with his pupils reaching “distinction” and being “numberless.”