Otto Kade

Kade was born in Dresden. After graduating from the Kreuzschule, Kade studied harmony and counterpoint with the Kreuzkantor Ernst Julius Otto [de] and Moritz Hauptmann in Dresden. A scholarship of the Saxon king Frederick Augustus II of Saxony enabled him to study further piano and organ with Johann Gottlob Schneider junior [de]. With the support of his uncle, the coin engraver Reinhard Krüger, he could make a one-and-a-half year journey to Italy, on which he researched in music archives and among other things tracked down a mass by Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina in a monastery library and brought it into a score.

In 1869 he was a co-founder and then a long-time author of the Monatshefte für Musik-Geschichte [de].

Kade died in Doberan at age 81.