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KASTNER (Kastner) Jean Georges (Johann Georg) (9 III 1810, Strasbourg - 19 XII 1867, Paris) - French composer and music. theorist. German by nationality. He studied at the Protestant theological seminary. He was a military conductor. Orchestra in Strasbourg (1830). In 1835 he graduated from the Paris Conservatory. The author of works on instrumentation, harmony and polyphony. He wrote articles for the French. and dumb. musesnewspapers, encyclopedias and dictionaries. Among the muses. production K. - 5 operas, incl. The Last King of Judea (Le dernier roi de Juda, Paris, 1844), 3 symphonies (1832-35), symph. poems from muses. and philosophical introductions (Livres partitions - score books) - "Dance of Death" ("Les danses des morts", 1852) and others. Son K. - physicist Georg Friedrich Eugen K. (1852-1882) invented the pyrophone - the so-called . fire organ (1875; sound arose as a result of burning gas in tubes of various sizes).