Bernhard Klein

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Portrait around 1830, Bernhard Klein

Bernhard Joseph Klein (born March 6, 1793 in Cologne , † September 9, 1832 in Berlin ) was a German composer .

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family

Klein married Lili Parthey (born October 2, 1800 in Berlin; † August 13, 1829). She was the sister of Gustav Parthey (1798–1872) and the granddaughter of the Berlin enlightener Friedrich Nicolai (1733–1811). Bernhard and Lilly Klein had three daughters. The daughter Elisabeth Klein (1828–1899) married the Egyptologist Carl Richard Lepsius (1810–1883) on July 5, 1846 . The honeymoon went to Rome; Here, with the support of Santini , Klein eagerly studied a cappella music.

Career

Klein went to Paris in 1812 and studied at the Conservatoire there . He then became music director at Cologne Cathedral . In 1818, together with Karl August Groos , he published the songbook German songs for young and old , published by Georg Andreas Reimer . In 1819 he came to Berlin at the instigation of Carl Friedrich Zelter , where he joined the Sing-Akademie zu Berlin that same year , to which he belonged until his death in 1832 and in 1820 became a composition teacher at the Royal Institute for Church Music and music director at the University of Berlin . Together with his friend, the music writer and critic Ludwig Rellstab , the Zelter student was one of the founders of the Younger Berliner Liedertafel .

Klein composed oratorios , a mass , a magnificat , a cantata , psalms , hymns and motets as well as three operas , songs and piano music. His conservative compositional style was shaped by the ideas of the music writer Anton Friedrich Justus Thibaut .

death

Bernhard Klein died in Berlin in 1832 at the age of 39 and was buried in the old St. Hedwig cemetery there on Chausseestrasse . Because this burial site was leveled, his remains were reburied in the new St. Hedwig cemetery on Liesenstrasse in 1834 . The tomb has not been preserved.

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About Klein writes Heinrich Heine in his travel images I ( Letters from Berlin , the second letter, March 16, 1822): "From the local composers I mention just after Spontini our Bernhard Klein, who has made already gloriously through some beautiful compositions known and whose great opera "Dido" is eagerly awaited by the entire audience. According to the opinion of all those in the know, to whom the composer shared some of it, this opera should contain the most wonderful beauties and be a brilliant German national work. Klein's music is entirely original. It is quite different from the music of the two masters discussed above [= Weber and Spontini], just as the cheerful, pleasant, fun-loving face of the comfortable Rhinelander forms a striking contrast next to their faces. Klein is a Cologne resident and can be seen as the pride of his hometown. "

Works

  • Ariadne , Opera, 1824
  • The 23rd Psalm for 4-part mixed choir
  • Dido by Ludwig Rellstab after Pietro Metastasio , opera, 1821 (premiere: Berlin, 1823)
  • Irene , opera (unfinished)
  • Job , oratorio ( cantata ), 1820
  • Jephtha op.29, oratorio, 1828
  • David op.34, oratorio, 1829
  • Athalia , oratorio

literature

  • Ludwig Rellstab , Bernhard Klein , in: Neue Zeitschrift für Musik , Volume 3, No. 2 of July 7, 1835, pp. 5 f .; No. 3 of July 10, 1835, pp. 9 f .; No. 4 of July 14, 1835, pp. 13 f .; No. 15, August 21, 1835, pp. 57-59; No. 16 of August 25, 1835, pp. 61 f .; No. 17, August 28, 1835, pp. 65-67; No. 18, September 1, 1835, pp. 69-71; No. 19 of September 4, 1835, pp. 73 f .; No. 20 of September 8, 1835, pp. 77 f .; No. 21, September 11, 1835, pp. 81-84; No. 49, December 18, 1835, pp. 193-196; No. 50 of December 22, 1835, p. 197 f. and No. 51 of December 25, 1835, pp. 201 f.
  • Robert Eitner :  Klein, Bernhard . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 16, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1882, pp. 78-87.
  • Paul Kaufmann, Unprinted Letters from the Musical Biedermeier - Anton Friedrich Justus Thibaut and Bernhard Joseph Klein. In: The music. Vol. 27, Issue 7, April 1935, pp. 500–504 ( archive.org ).
  • Karl Gustav Fellerer :  Klein, Bernhard. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 11, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1977, ISBN 3-428-00192-3 , p. 733 f. ( Digitized version ).

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Footnotes

  1. ↑ German songs for young and old. Realschulbuchhandlung, Berlin 1818 ( digitized versionhttp: //vorlage_digitalisat.test/1%3D~GB%3Dlb46AAAAcAAJ~IA%3D~MDZ%3D%0A~SZ%3D~doppelseiten%3D~LT%3D~PUR%3D ).
  2. ↑ Lisa Feurweise (Ed.): German songs for young and old (= Recent Researches in the Oral Traditions of Music Volume 7). AR Editions, Middleton 2002, ISBN 0-89579-517-5 ( limited preview in Google Book Search).
  3. ^ Wiegand Stief, Otto Holzapfel : "German songs for young and old". Supplements to the volume from 1818 around 1825/35. In: Jahrbuch für Volksliedforschung 43rd year 1998, pp. 50-62 ( JSTOR 848079 ).
  4. ^ Alfred Etzold: The Dorotheenstädtische Friedhof. The burial places on Berlin's Chausseestrasse . Links, Berlin 1993. P. 182. Hans-Jürgen Mende: Lexikon Berliner Grabstätten . Haude & Spener, Berlin 2006. p. 54.
  5. ^ Heinrich Heine: Works and letters in ten volumes. Volume 3: Letters from Berlin (1822). Berlin and Weimar 1972, p. 520. Second letter at Zeno.org .
personal data
SURNAME Klein, Bernhard
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Klein, Bernhard Joseph
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German composer
DATE OF BIRTH March 6, 1793
PLACE OF BIRTH Cologne
DATE OF DEATH September 9, 1832
Place of death Berlin