Kaun Stockhammer

Hugo Kaun is considered a modern late Romantic and was a German composer, conductor and music educator. His works were held in the highest esteem in Germany and America. In Chicago, Kaun studied with the German-American music theorist Bernhard Ziehn, with whom Wilhelm Middelschulte also received his training. Later, like Middelschulte, he taught at the conservatory there. Until 1901, he worked as a music teacher, conductor and composer in Milwaukee, Wisconsin and other places, and as founder and conductor of the Milwaukee Liederkranz and director of the festivals of the Northwest Sängerbund.