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Carl Christian Kegel
19th centurygerman18th century
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Carl Christian (Karl Christian) Kegel (1770–1843) was a German cantor active in Gangloffsömmern from 1807. In surviving documentary traces he appears not only as a church musician but also as a copyist and meticulous cataloguer: a handwritten thematic inventory records the Johann Sebastian Bach organ and keyboard works he owned in Gangloffsömmern, and Bach scholarship notes that one early Bach version is known solely through incipits preserved in Kegel’s possession catalogues. Kegel also published an Orgelschule for practical organ instruction (Leipzig, 1830), placing him within the early-19th-century tradition of provincial cantor-organists who combined teaching, copying, and curating repertory alongside their local duties. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.