Kurt Kaiser

Kurt Frederic Kaiser (December 17, 1934 – November 12, 2018) was an American contemporary church music composer and arranger.

Kaiser studied at the American Conservatory of Music in Chicago while earning two degrees from Northwestern University.

With more than 300 copyrighted songs, he arranged and produced albums for many national and international artists, among them George Beverly Shea, Jerome Hines, Burl Ives, Tennessee Ernie Ford, Ethel Waters, Ken Medema, Joni Eareckson Tada, Anne Martindale Williams, Christopher Adkins & Stephen Nielson, Christopher Parkening, and Kathleen Battle.

Kaiser led innumerable choral workshops, performed concerts, and recorded eighteen solo albums at the piano.

The melody of "Pass It On" was used for a popular German hymn of similar content, "Ins Wasser fällt ein Stein".

During the past five decades, Kaiser copyrighted more than 300 songs, one of the latest being a Christmas piece, "One Quiet Night," that was premiered by the Waco Symphony.

Ambassador to perform with a string quartet and soloist at a gala Christmas gathering of guests and dignitaries at the Museum of History in Stockholm.