Biography
Jacob Kappey
Real name: Jacob Adam Kappey
German bandmaster, composer and arranger (born 1826 in Bingen, Germany - died 1907 at Chatham, England)He was Bandmaster of the Royal Marines (Chatham).
Kappey wrote an opera and a cantata and arranged both marches and Christmas songs. In 1894, he published a book entitled "Military Music: A History of Wind-Instrumental Bands."