Udo Klement

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Udo Fritz Peter Klement (born January 12, 1936 in Dresden ) is a German musicologist and music critic .

Life

Klement, without a denomination, was born in Dresden in 1936 as the son of a gear cutter and a farm worker or saleswoman. He attended the Dresden Kreuzschule and the Dresden West Oberschule ( Abitur 1954). From 1954 to 1958 he studied music education and German at the Philosophical Faculty of the Karl Marx University in Leipzig . In 1958 he passed the state examination for the teaching profession in music (at the 12-class high school). Afterwards he was a teacher for music and German, in 1964 he acquired the teaching qualification for German (up to grade 10).

From 1966 to 1969 he was a research assistant for music education at the Institute for Musicology at the Karl Marx University in Leipzig. In 1969 he was at Paul Willert with the musicological dissertation A "The musical theater Carl Orff . Investigations into a bourgeois work of art “to the Dr. phil. PhD. The other reviewers of the work were Walther Siegmund-Schultze and the Orff student Paul Kurzbach .

He then became senior academic assistant for music education in the musicology department, the theory and methodology of music education department, and in 1972 in the historical and systematic musicology department in the cultural studies and German studies section and in 1976 in the cultural and art studies section. In 1976 he received the Facultas Docendi . 1977 followed the PhD B to Dr. sc. phil. in musicology (subject: "The importance of the dramaturgical in orchestral music in the German Democratic Republic"). In addition to Walther Siegmund-Schultze, this time Ernst Hermann Meyer and Hella Brock were among the reviewers. In 1991 the academic degree in Dr. phil. habil. transformed.

From 1977 he was a lecturer, from 1980 to 1993 full professor for music history at the Section for Cultural and Art Studies at the Karl Marx University in Leipzig. He was then recalled and took early retirement. In addition to music history, his main research interests were the dramaturgy of classical instrumental music , the history of musicology, music analysis and criticism, and symphonic music . From 1967 to 1969 he was executive assistant at the Institute for Musicology and from 1973 to 1975 teaching group leader music / German. From 1981 to 1985 he was section director and from 1986 to 1990 head of the musicology and music education department. His academic students included a. Ulrike Liedtke and Christoph Sramek .

From 1973 to 1989 he was a member of the Association of Composers and Musicologists of the GDR , where he was on the central board from 1982 to 1989. He was repeatedly a member of the musicology working group of the Scientific Advisory Board for Culture, Art and Linguistics at the Ministry for Higher and Technical Education in the GDR . From 1986 to 1989 he was chairman of the Central Expert Commission on Music Education at the GDR Council of Ministers .

Klement was a permanent contributor and music critic of the daily newspaper Die Union . From 1973 to 1989 he contributed to the “GDR music development” for the yearbook of the Great Soviet Encyclopedia in Moscow. From 1973 he edited music keywords for all lexica of the Bibliographisches Institut in Leipzig.

Awards

Fonts (selection)

  • Carl Orff's music theater (= contributions to musicological research in the GDR . Vol. 14). German publishing house for music, Leipzig 1982.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Dissertations at the Institute for Musicology at the University of Leipzig , gko.uni-leipzig.de, accessed: November 6, 2019.
personal data
SURNAME Klement, Udo
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Klement, Udo Fritz Peter (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German music historian and critic
DATE OF BIRTH January 12, 1936
PLACE OF BIRTH Dresden