Joseph Kaspar Raff
(12 July 1831 — 13 July 1893)
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Alternative Names/Transliterations: Joseph C. Raff, Jos. Raff (most often encountered on score covers)
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- Brother of the now somewhat better known Joachim Raff whose full name as noted is also Joseph (Joachim) Raff. This has led to some confusion, as when some works in some catalogs by this composer have been attributed to Joachim Raff. There have been convincing grounds to attribute them to Kaspar, however - particularly references to American students and subjects at times before Raff’s popularity would have reached United States shores (at a time when Joachim had just had his first successes with his first symphony - 1863 - and soon would be popular) - but when Kaspar Raff was already established here as a teacher. Worklists of Raff’s music published in the late 19th century, biographies of him by family members, etc. say nothing about the music in question or about trips to America. So attribution questions if anything become questions of attribution to which brother, and there are reasons to believe that Kaspar Raff is most likely, as Owego New York (near the Finger Lakes, near Ithaca and Binghamton), where he settled in 1858 (then to Binghamton in 1888) after being in Philadelphia for several years, is mentioned (at least once)- for example.- Schissel
