Kunz, Konrad Max

1812-1875

Conductor, composer of songs and writer. Was born at Schwandorf, in Bavaria, and died at Munich. He began his musical study in the Gymnasium at Amberg, and continued it under Hartmann Stuntz at Munich, where he also studied medicine. He helped found the Munich Liedertafel, became interested in other singing societies and composed many successful choruses, quartets and songs, among them Elstein, and Odin der Schlachtengott. He is chiefly famous for his two hundred canons for the piano, a collection of very good studies highly praised by von Bulow. He published a pamphlet also, of a humorous and satirical character, Die Gründung der Moosgau-Bruderschaft Moosgrillia.