Eberhardt Klemm

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Fritz Eberhardt Klemm (born September 4, 1929 in Zwickau ; † June 7, 1991 in Leipzig ) was a German musicologist and publicist. He was one of the leading Eisler experts in the GDR.

Life

Klemm was born in 1929 as the son of a teacher in Zwickau and attended secondary school in Leipzig from 1940 to 1948. From 1949 he studied physics , mathematics and philosophy (with Ernst Bloch ) at the University of Leipzig . In 1951 he switched to musicology with Walter Serauky , Hellmuth Christian Wolff and Rudolf Eller and received his diploma in 1954. From 1952 he was assistant at the Institute for Musicology at the University of Leipzig, from 1954 to 1965 research assistant to Heinrich Besseler , from 1957 to 1966 lecturer for musicology, from 1961 on behalf of Besseler's managing director of the institute. In 1965 his dissertation on the theory of musical permutation was rejected due to his political views, and in the same year he resigned from university. The reviewers for the work were Heinrich Besseler and Hellmuth Christian Wolff.

From 1965 to 1985 he was a freelance musicologist without a permanent position. He worked as editor of the piano works of Claude Debussy , Erik Satie , Gabriel Fauré , Louis Moreau Gottschalk , Hermann Scherchen and Scott Joplin as well as of Gustav Mahler's 6th Symphony and Hanns Eisler's orchestral suite. At the same time he published historical works by Charles Burney , Claude Debussy, Anton Felix Schindler and George Bernhard Shaw . From 1968 he published a revised version of Kurt Johnen's general music theory. From 1978 to 1982 he was also editor of the yearbook of the Peters Music Library . He also worked programmatically for Radio DDR II .

In 1985, Klemm became head of the Hanns Eisler Archive at the Academy of the Arts in Berlin. There he worked on the Hanns Eisler Complete Edition. In 1990 he was elected President of the Society for Musicology. In 1990 he received his habilitation in Leipzig with a thesis on the subject of text-critical work on the self-image of the Second Vienna School . He brought out several music theory writings. The new music of Arnold Schönberg , Anton Webern and Gustav Mahler played an essential role. In the field of contemporary music, he conducted research on composers such as Alban Berg , Béla Bartók , Claude Debussy, Charles Ives , Max Reger , Gustav Mahler, Erik Satie, Karol Szymanowski , Arnold Schönberg and Edgar Varèse . The music styles minimal music and new simplicity were also relevant in his considerations.

The music theorist Klemm was in correspondence with personalities such as Theodor W. Adorno , Manfred Bierwisch , Klaus Baumgärtner , Ernst Bloch, Konrad Boehmer , Carl Dahlhaus , Ulrich Dibelius , Peter Gülke , Hans G Helms , Uwe Johnson , Mauricio Kagel , Georg Knepler , Aloys Kontarsky , Salvador Maas , Erwin Ratz , Alfred Schnittke , Rudolf Stephan , Hans Heinz Stuckenschmidt and Franz Willnauer .

With the musicians Gerd Schenker , Matthias Sannemüller and Steffen Schleiermacher , he founded the Forum Contemporary Music Leipzig in 1990 .

Award

Works

  • The correspondence between Arnold Schönberg and the publishing house CF Peters , in: Deutsches Jahrbuch der Musikwissenschaft , vol. 15 (1971), pp. 5-66
  • Hanns Eisler . Portrayed for you , Leipzig 1973
  • On the history of the Fifth Symphony by Gustav Mahler . The correspondence between Mahler and CF Peters and other documents , in: Jahrbuch Peters , Vol. 2 (1979), pp. 9–116
  • Traces of the avant-garde. Writings 1955–1991 , Cologne: MusikTexte, 1997, 548 pages
  • “Everything is equally close to the center” , ed. by Thomas Schinköth, 2000
  • Ossian to Béla. About Benjamin and Bloch. From the correspondence between Uwe Johnson and Eberhardt and Erika Klemm , ed. by Erdmut Wizisla, in: Johnson-Jahrbuch , Volume 11 (2004), pp. 11–28

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Exact life data of Eberhardt Klemm ( Memento from May 23, 2016 in the Internet Archive ), Personen-wiki.slub-dresden.de of the SLUB
personal data
SURNAME Klemm, Eberhardt
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Klemm, Fritz Eberhardt (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German musicologist
DATE OF BIRTH September 4, 1929
PLACE OF BIRTH Zwickau
DATE OF DEATH June 7, 1991
Place of death Leipzig