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'''Christoph Caskel''' (b. 12 January 1932) is a German percussionist and teacher.
==Life==
Born in [[Greifswald]], Caskel began learning percussion at an early age, taking lessons at the age of five with a military musician and as a schoolboy with a percussionist from the [[Berlin State Opera]] . He studied percussion formally from 1949 to 1953 with Wenzel Pricha at the [[Hochschule für Musik und Tanz Köln|Staatliche Hochschule für Musik]] in Cologne. During these years, he began taking an interest in contemporary music under the influence of another lecturer at the Hochschule, the cellist . After completing his conservatory training, he studied musicology from 1953 to 1955 at the [[University of Cologne]] .
Since the beginning of the 1960s Caskel has become known internationally as a performer of chamber music and solo works by contemporary composers, taking part in the premieres of important works such as [[Karlheinz Stockhausen]]'s '' [[Zyklus]] '' (1959) and ''[[Kontakte]]'' (1960), [[Helmut Lachenmann]]’s ''Intérieur'', and [[Mauricio Kagel]]’s ''Transición II'', all of which he also recorded . He has also taken an interest in historical percussion instruments, serving as timpanist in the early music orchestra [[Capella Coloniensis]] . In 1964 he joined the Stockhausen Ensemble, and also performed and, in 1977, recorded [[Béla Bartók]]'s [[Sonata for Two Pianos and Percussion]] with [[Aloys and Alfons Kontarsky]] .
In 1963 he was appointed to the faculty of the in Cologne, and in the same year formed a duo with the harpsichordist . In 1973 he became professor of timpani and percussion at the Hochschule für Musik und Tanz Köln . Amongst his notable students are , , [[Paul Lovens]], , , , and . In addition, he has devoted himself to the instruction of beginning percussionists, publishing a book for complete beginners, ''Snare Drum... step by step.... '', in 2005. He has published articles on percussion in ''[[Die Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart]]'', as well as an article on percussion notation in the ''Darmstädter Beiträge zur neuen Musik'' (1965).
==Awards==
In 1963 he received the .
==Bibliography==
*Caskel, Christoph. 1965. "Notation für Schlagzeug". In ''Notation neuer Musik'', edited by Ernst Thomas, 110–16. Darmstädter Beiträge zur Neuen Musik 9. Mainz: Schott. English edition, as "Notation for Percussion Instruments", translated by Vernon Martin. ''Percussionist'' 8, no. 3 (March 1971): 80–84.
*Caskel, Christoph. 2005. ''Snare drum ... step by step ... : Trommel-Schule für Einsteiger von 8 bis 80 Jahren''. Bergisch-Gladbach: Leu-Verlag.
==References==
*|reference=Anon. 1969. "[https://ift.tt/2NsC0Wg Caskel: Strich am Becken]". ''Der Spiegel'' (24 November).}}
*|reference=Lück, Rudolf. 2001. "Caskel, Christoph". ''The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians'', second edition, edited by [[Stanley Sadie]] and [[John Tyrrell (musicologist)|John Tyrrell]]. London: Macmillan Publishers.}}
[[Category:1932 births]]
[[Category:German percussionists]]
[[Category:People from Greifswald]]
[[Category:Deutsche Grammophon artists]]
[[Category:Hochschule für Musik und Tanz Köln faculty]]
[[Category:20th-century classical musicians]]
[[Category:20th-century German musicians]]
'''Christoph Caskel''' (b. 12 January 1932) is a German percussionist and teacher.
==Life==
Born in [[Greifswald]], Caskel began learning percussion at an early age, taking lessons at the age of five with a military musician and as a schoolboy with a percussionist from the [[Berlin State Opera]] . He studied percussion formally from 1949 to 1953 with Wenzel Pricha at the [[Hochschule für Musik und Tanz Köln|Staatliche Hochschule für Musik]] in Cologne. During these years, he began taking an interest in contemporary music under the influence of another lecturer at the Hochschule, the cellist . After completing his conservatory training, he studied musicology from 1953 to 1955 at the [[University of Cologne]] .
Since the beginning of the 1960s Caskel has become known internationally as a performer of chamber music and solo works by contemporary composers, taking part in the premieres of important works such as [[Karlheinz Stockhausen]]'s '' [[Zyklus]] '' (1959) and ''[[Kontakte]]'' (1960), [[Helmut Lachenmann]]’s ''Intérieur'', and [[Mauricio Kagel]]’s ''Transición II'', all of which he also recorded . He has also taken an interest in historical percussion instruments, serving as timpanist in the early music orchestra [[Capella Coloniensis]] . In 1964 he joined the Stockhausen Ensemble, and also performed and, in 1977, recorded [[Béla Bartók]]'s [[Sonata for Two Pianos and Percussion]] with [[Aloys and Alfons Kontarsky]] .
In 1963 he was appointed to the faculty of the in Cologne, and in the same year formed a duo with the harpsichordist . In 1973 he became professor of timpani and percussion at the Hochschule für Musik und Tanz Köln . Amongst his notable students are , , [[Paul Lovens]], , , , and . In addition, he has devoted himself to the instruction of beginning percussionists, publishing a book for complete beginners, ''Snare Drum... step by step.... '', in 2005. He has published articles on percussion in ''[[Die Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart]]'', as well as an article on percussion notation in the ''Darmstädter Beiträge zur neuen Musik'' (1965).
==Awards==
In 1963 he received the .
==Bibliography==
*Caskel, Christoph. 1965. "Notation für Schlagzeug". In ''Notation neuer Musik'', edited by Ernst Thomas, 110–16. Darmstädter Beiträge zur Neuen Musik 9. Mainz: Schott. English edition, as "Notation for Percussion Instruments", translated by Vernon Martin. ''Percussionist'' 8, no. 3 (March 1971): 80–84.
*Caskel, Christoph. 2005. ''Snare drum ... step by step ... : Trommel-Schule für Einsteiger von 8 bis 80 Jahren''. Bergisch-Gladbach: Leu-Verlag.
==References==
*|reference=Anon. 1969. "[https://ift.tt/2NsC0Wg Caskel: Strich am Becken]". ''Der Spiegel'' (24 November).}}
*|reference=Lück, Rudolf. 2001. "Caskel, Christoph". ''The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians'', second edition, edited by [[Stanley Sadie]] and [[John Tyrrell (musicologist)|John Tyrrell]]. London: Macmillan Publishers.}}
[[Category:1932 births]]
[[Category:German percussionists]]
[[Category:People from Greifswald]]
[[Category:Deutsche Grammophon artists]]
[[Category:Hochschule für Musik und Tanz Köln faculty]]
[[Category:20th-century classical musicians]]
[[Category:20th-century German musicians]]
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