Fritz Heinrich Klein

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Fritz Heinrich Klein (born February 2, 1892 in Budapest , † July 12, 1977 in Linz ) was an Austrian composer .

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Klein began studying with Arnold Schönberg in 1917 , and continued a year later under Alban Berg . In the following years, Klein wrote the piano reductions for Berg's opera “ Wozzeck ” and his chamber concert. He discovered the so-called mother chord , a chord that consists of twelve different tones and at the same time twelve different intervals. He used this chord for the first time in his work The Machine: An Extonal Self-Satire , Op. 1 (1921). This piece became the first printed twelve-tone work in music literature; it premiered in New York in 1924 . This made Klein a pioneer of serial music . He himself always referred to his Opus 1 with the words “This boundary stone - my time”, and soon afterwards he returned to tonality. In 1924 Klein moved to Linz, where he taught composition and theory at the Bruckner Conservatory from 1932 to 1957 as a main subject teacher.

Works

Operas
  • "Nostradamus"
  • "The judgment of God"
  • "The St. Jakobsfahrt"
Drama with incidental music
  • "The Joker"
  • "He, She and It"
Orchestral works
  • "Bruckner House"
  • Symphonic Variations, Symphonic Cycle

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personal data
SURNAME Klein, Fritz Heinrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian composer
DATE OF BIRTH February 2, 1892
PLACE OF BIRTH Budapest
DATE OF DEATH July 12, 1977
Place of death Linz