1823-12-10∗12/10/1823 in Neukirchen / Erzgebire (Sachsen), Germany
1903-09-18†09/18/1903 in Hamburg, Germany
maleComposerDEAs a composer, he was an intense romantic lyricist and a natural miniaturist - he is credited with having written over 1000 piano pieces (mainly collected in cycles) of which many are only a minute or so in duration.
Konrad Ewald
«Kirchner's compositional oeuvre is almost completely dedicated to the piano. He wrote close to a thousand ...pieces» (Bernhard Päuler in the preface, on the «8 Pieces»). The