Jean Christian Kytch was a Dutch Baroque

Baroque

The Baroque is a period and the style that used exaggerated motion and clear, easily interpreted detail to produce drama, tension, exuberance, and grandeur in sculpture, painting, literature, dance, and music...

-era oboist. Based on works he is known to have performed, it is thought that he possessed considerable technical ability on the oboe

Oboe

The oboe is a double reed musical instrument of the woodwind family. In English, prior to 1770, the instrument was called "hautbois" , "hoboy", or "French hoboy". The spelling "oboe" was adopted into English ca...

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He was known as "Handel's oboist" and Handel

George Frideric Handel

George Frideric Handel was a German-British Baroque composer, famous for his operas, oratorios, anthems and organ concertos. Handel was born in 1685, in a family indifferent to music...

's use of a solo oboe in many of his works was almost certainly inspired by the playing of Kytch. It is thought that Handel arranged his Oboe concerto No. 2

Oboe concerto No. 2 (Handel)

The Oboe Concerto No. 2 in B flat major was composed by George Frideric Handel for oboe, orchestra and basso continuo. The work is also referred to as Concerto grosso no. 9. It was first published in the fourth volume of Select Harmony by Walsh in 1740...

 for Kytch.

Career

Kytch's career included:

• Work in the orchestra of the London Opera House around 1712.
• Employment by the Duke of Chandos (James Brydges
  James Brydges, 1st Duke of Chandos
  James Brydges, 1st Duke of Chandos, MP, PC was the first of fourteen children by Sir James Brydges, 3rd Baronet of Wilton Castle, Sheriff of Herefordshire, 8th Baron Chandos; and Elizabeth Barnard...
  
  ) during at least 1719 and 1720.
• A musician for the Chapel Royal services in the 1720s.

Legacy

It is said that the plight of Kytch's children after their father's death prompted the establishment of the Fund for the Support of Decayed Musicians and their Families. Handel contributed generously to the fund.