Richard Rudolf Klein

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Richard Rudolf Klein (born May 21, 1921 in Nußdorf / Pfalz ; † December 17, 2011 in Glashütten (Taunus) ) was a German musician , composer and university professor . The large number of his compositions includes different genres such as children's and church songs, stage and orchestral music, chamber and instrumental concerts as well as chamber music.

life and work

Klein first attended the humanistic grammar school in Landau . During this time he learned to make music on the piano , violin and viola . Later he began to learn to play the trumpet and the organ . He started composing very early on. As a teenager he conducted his own works in the school orchestra at school and memorial celebrations; At the age of fourteen, Klein played his own works for piano and songs for the radio station in Kaiserslautern (1926–1945) in 1935. After graduating from high school in 1940, he was drafted into military service. In 1943 he was seriously wounded in fighting and subsequently lost a leg to an amputation. As a result, he had to distance himself from his actual career aspiration to become a conductor. Due to the serious war injury, he no longer had to take part in the war and was therefore able to study music in Trossingen from 1944. From 1946 to 1948 he continued his studies at the Musikhochschule Stuttgart.

His teachers included Hans Brehme (piano), Wolfgang Fortner (composition), Hans Grischkat , Karl Münchinger and Bertil Wetzelsberger (conducting) and Philipp Mohler (composition).

In 1948 Klein attained artistic maturity in conducting and composition and, at the age of 27, was one of the youngest to teach composition at the Stuttgart University of Music . The following year he became a lecturer in music theory at the Northwest German Music Academy in Detmold . Between 1948 and 1950, parallel to his teaching position, he took up private studies in twelve-tone technology with Wolfgang Fortner.

From 1960 to 1984 he taught composition, form theory, score and figured bass playing at the Frankfurt University of Music , from 1965 as a professor. From 1985 to 1996, i.e. until he was 75, Klein taught at Dr. Hoch's Conservatory in Frankfurt am Main.

For a period of four decades, Klein was a freelance music editor at Fidula Verlag .

engagement

Klein has been involved in a large number of music projects; for example, he was on the jury of the international Alois Kottmann Prize for classical violin playing together with the singers Agnes Giebel and Margit Neubauer and the violinists Alois Kottmann and Boris Kottmann .

Awards

literature

  • Wilbert, Hermann-Josef: The composer Richard Rudolf Klein. Description and appreciation of his life, his work, his person and his meaning. Books on Demand, Norderstedt 2014, ISBN 978-3-7357-4863-8

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Wilbert, Hermann-Josef: The composer Richard Rudolf Klein. Description and appreciation of his life, his work, his person and his meaning . Books on Demand, Norderstedt 2014, ISBN 978-3-7357-4863-8 , pp. 78 .
  2. ^ Author portrait of Richard Rudolf Klein ( memento from July 19, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) on: rieserler.de
  3. ↑ Richard Rudolf Klein on his 90th birthday ( memento from December 18, 2012 in the web archive archive.today ) on: gema.de
  4. ↑ Richard Rudolf Klein , KDG - Composers of the Present, in the Munzinger Archive ( beginning of the article freely accessible)
  5. ↑ You can't do more than give your best ( memento from July 21, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) at: hfmdk-frankfurt.info
  6. ↑ Honors ( Memento from August 15, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) on: komponistenverband.de
personal data
SURNAME Klein, Richard Rudolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German composer and music teacher
DATE OF BIRTH May 21, 1921
PLACE OF BIRTH Nussdorf
DATE OF DEATH December 17, 2011
Place of death Glassworks (Taunus)