Wilhelm Kleefeld

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Wilhelm Kleefeld (born April 2, 1868 in Mainz , † April 2, 1933 in Berlin ) was a German music writer and arranger of historical operas of Jewish origin.

Kleefeld first studied science in Heidelberg in 1886 , but soon turned to music and studied at the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Berlin a . a. Musicology with Philipp Spitta . Between 1891 and 1896 Kleefeld worked as Kapellmeister in Mainz , Trier , Munich and Detmold . In 1897 he received his doctorate in Berlin. A year later he became a teacher at the Klindworth-Scharwenka Conservatory . In 1901 he habilitated temporarily until 1904 as a private lecturer in the previously vacant subject of musicology at the University of Greifswald . Then he returned to Berlin. Early on, Wilhelm Kleefeld busy with film-musical problems and encouraged Giuseppe Becce 1919 first to his great German Illustration collection in Robert Lienau Musikverlag published Kinothek on.

Under the title Opera Renaissance , Wilhelm Kleefeld edited new editions of operas for Robert Lienau Musikverlag , which were very successful. They continued to be performed during National Socialism . However, on the instructions of the rulers, the name Wilhelm Kleefeld was no longer allowed to appear on stage contracts, theater slips, text books and piano reductions, despite the existing copyright law.

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  • Film-Ton-Kunst, No. 4, Film-Musik-Union, Berlin 1928
  • Hugo Riemanns Musiklexikon, Berlin 1929
  • Eva Weissweiler : Eliminated! The Lexicon of the Jews in Music and its Murderous Consequences. Dittrich, Cologne 1999, ISBN 3-920862-25-2

Works

Fonts

  • Bayreuth Festival 1899. p. 26, magazine of the International Music Society
  • The Hamburg Opera Orchestra 1678-1738, anthologies of the International Music Society, 1st year, H. 2., Feb., Franz Steiner Verlag, 1900
  • Ferdinando Paër, Der Herr Kapellmeister or Antonius and Cleopatra: comic opera in one act, revision, Robert Lienau Musikverlag , Berlin 1902
  • Saint-Saens Camille, Harmonie und Melodie, Harmonie, Berlin 1905
  • Clara Schumann. Velhagen & Klasing., Bielefeld and Leipzig 1920
  • Béatrice et Bénédict , revision, Robert Lienau Musikverlag , Berlin 1912
  • L'éclair , revision, Robert Lienau Musikverlag , Berlin 1922
  • Don Pasquale , revision, Robert Lienau Musikverlag , Berlin 1922
  • Carl Maria von Weber. Velhagen & Klasing, Bielefeld 1926

Compositions

  • Amarella, opera (1896)
  • Suite for string orchestra
personal data
SURNAME Kleefeld, Wilhelm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German music writer
DATE OF BIRTH April 2, 1868
PLACE OF BIRTH Mainz
DATE OF DEATH April 2, 1933
Place of death Berlin