Previous posts for August 30th are found here: Regina Resnik (2019), George Frederick Root (2020), Christian Friedrich Gottlieb Schwencke (2021), Johnny Mann (2022), and Robert Crumb (2023)
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Adolf Friedrich Hesse (30 August 1809 – 5 August 1863) was a German organist and composer.
Hesse studied with Christian Heinrich Rinck six months in 1828-1829: Rinck was a student of Johann Christian Kittel, who in turn was a student of Johann Sebastian Bach. One of Hesse's pupils was the Belgian organist Jacques-Nocolas Lemmens, who would later teach Charles-Marie Widor. Albert Schweitzer studied with Widor, mainly from 1899. -- heavily adapted from Wikipedia, s.v. "Adolf Friedrich Hesse" and "Charles-Marie Widor"
The Bible has a dreary bit, and that’s
The chapters which are known as "the begats."
Musicians, too, have treasured what it meant
To have a line of musical descent,
Though not, of course, as intricate or tribal
As that awaiting in your family Bible.
What follows is an unrequested sample
Which serves as an innocuous example.
Adolf Friedrich Hesse had a link
To J. S. Bach, through Kittel, and then Rinck.
While he, in turn, trained Lemmens, who then taught
Young Widor, who in later years was sought
By Schweitzer, who was gratified that he
Could thus claim Bach was in his pedigree.
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