Josef Klein (composer)

Josef Klein (born November 12th, 1870 in Vienna ; † September 12th / 13th, 1933 there ) was an Austrian violinist, conductor and composer.

Life

Josef Klein received musical training at the Conservatory of the Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde . His teachers included Josef Hellmesberger junior and Josef Vockner . In 1885/86 he attended the subject of harmony with Anton Bruckner . From 1889 to 1932 he was primary violinist at the Vienna Court and State Opera (from 1913 also ballet conductor) and member of the Vienna Philharmonic , which also performed his compositions. His stage works, in which dance rhythm and melody are the focus, have been performed in the Carltheater , at the Court and Volksoper and in the Theater an der Wien .

He was buried at the Baumgartner Friedhof .

Works

• 2 operettas (based on motifs by Johann Strauss) (1921)
• The winner (based on motifs by PI Tchaikovsky) (1922)
• 11 ballets, dance games or pantomimes
  • The red dominos (1898)
  • Wiener am Nile (1906)
  • In the painter's studio (1908)
  • Faun and Forest Fairy (also Faun and Nymph) (1916/1917)
  • Hashish Dream (1917)
  • Isis (1918)
  • The disturbed idyll (1919)
  • The Moor and the Dancer (1920)
  • Homage to Johann Strauss (1923)
• Choirs
• Songs
• overture
• Suites
• Mass in E
• Edits

Private

Brother: Franz Klein

literature

• Uwe Harten : Klein, Josef. In: Oesterreichisches Musiklexikon . Online edition, Vienna 2002 ff., ISBN 3-7001-3077-5 ; Print edition: Volume 2, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 2003, ISBN 3-7001-3044-9 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Josef Klein in the search for the deceased at friedhoefewien.at