Talk:Christian Kalkbrenner

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Created new page today; footnotes and souces will be added tomorrow.Thomas W. Jefferson 01:57, 1 January 2010 (UTC)

Recent edits to article
Dear User Wilske: You introduced German "Umlaute" (ü) in the article on Christian Kalkbrenner, you deleted the correct internal link and substituted an incorrect one for it. Do not do this again! This is an act of vandalism! If this happens again, I will immidiately flag this user. You have no business at all to tinker around with a carfully researched article. Thomas W. Jefferson —Preceding unsigned comment added by Thomas W. Jefferson (talk • contribs) 20:42, 10 January 2010 (UTC)  '''You are highly welcome to add to this article and to help with sources. The section on Kalkbrenner’s works needs expansion. Work should be done on Prince Henry, his relationship with Christian Kalk-brenner should be researched. Sources have to be consulted and compared.''' Thomas W. Jefferson (talk) 20:45, 10 January 2010 (UTC)

To: User:Bmclaughlin9

You stylistic corrections are appreciated. However, there was no need for you to delete the quote of Fraser on Prince Henry. I am aware of the fact that this is an article on Friedrich Kalkbrenner and not on Prince Henry. However, Prince Henry played an important role in K’s. life. The fact why K. Left Prince Henry’s court is still shrouded in mystery. I am in the process of checking reliable sources on this. Furthermore, the quote shows something about the personality and the court of Henry. This is important for the understanding of K. father and son. The quote by Fraser is succinct, short and puts the entire Henry in nutshell. This is why I selected it.

I think the right procedure would have been to raise the fact that you find the quote about Henry not pertinent in this talk page – but not simply to delete it.

Moreover, this article contains more information on Kalkbrenner than you will find in any encyclopaedia. K. was only a minor figure, or at least this is the way he is perceived today, but he is important for the understanding of his son’s music and in turn for the understanding of Stamaty, Saint-Saens, Gottschalk and a score of other musicians.

I researched this article from original and hard to obtain modern and period sources. I translated from French and German sources into English and gave all sources including full quotes on the reference section. You can trust me that I know what I am doing. I ask you to respect this and do not once again delete the quote from Fraser. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Thomas W. Jefferson (talk • contribs) 22:17, 4 January 2010 (UTC)

Conclusion
I think this is about it. I put in this article as much material as I could find and as much as I thought the person of Kalkbrenner would warrant. Three things are desirable: 1. K.'s picture would be very welcome. So, if anyone who reads this and is a curator of a muse, a librarian etc., please be so kind to leave a notice here. 2. It would be interesting to know more about the wife, the mother of Friedrich Wilhelm Kalk-brenner, the pianist. 3. Scores of K.’s works obviously would be highly welcome too. There should be some in Hessian libraries in Germany and of course in Paris.Thomas W. Jefferson (talk) 19:38, 5 March 2010 (UTC)