Fritz Eberhardt Klemm (4 September 1929 – 7 June 1991) was a German musicologist and journalist. He was one of the leading Hanns Eisler experts of the GDR.

Life

Klemm was born in 1929 in Zwickau as the son of a teacher and attended the secondary school in Leipzig from 1940 to 1948. From 1949, he studied physics, mathematics and philosophy (under Ernst Bloch) at the

University of Leipzig Leipzig University (german: Universität Leipzig), in Leipzig in Saxony, Germany, is one of the world's oldest universities and the second-oldest university (by consecutive years of existence) in Germany. The university was founded on 2 Decemb ...

. In 1951, he changed to

musicology Musicology (from Greek μουσική ''mousikē'' 'music' and -λογια ''-logia'', 'domain of study') is the scholarly analysis and research-based study of music. Musicology departments traditionally belong to the humanities, although some mu ...

with

Walter Serauky Walter Karl August Serauky (20 April 1903 – 20 August 1959) was a German musicologist and Handel scholar. Life Born in Halle (Saale), Serauky, a Lutheran, was the son of an insurance agent and a housewife. After his Abitur in 1922 at the of ...

Hellmuth Christian Wolff Hellmuth Christian Wolff (23 May 1906, in Zürich – 1 July 1988, in Leipzig) was a German composer and musicologist. As a young man he studied music in Berlin and Kiel. He later taught music in Leipzig from 1954-1971. He is particularly remembe ...

and

Rudolf Eller Rudolf Eller (9 May 1914 – 24 September 2001) was a German musicologist and professor at the University of Rostock. Life Born in Dresden, Eller was the son of violist Arthur Emil Eller and his wife Margarete. From 1934 to 1936 he studied organ ...

and received his diploma in 1954. From 1952, he was an assistant at the Institute of Musicology at the University of Leipzig, from 1954 to 1965 he was research assistant to

Heinrich Besseler Heinrich Besseler (April 2, 1900 – July 25, 1969) was a German musicologist born in Hörde. He is particularly known for his colossal work, ''Die Musik des Mittelalters und der Renaissance'' (1931), which provided a new perspective on historical m ...

, from 1957 to 1966 he was a

lecturer Lecturer is an List of academic ranks, academic rank within many universities, though the meaning of the term varies somewhat from country to country. It generally denotes an academic expert who is hired to teach on a full- or part-time basis. T ...

in musicology, and from 1961 he was the managing director of the institute on behalf of Besseler. In 1965, his dissertation on the ''Theorie der musikalischen Permutation'' (Theory of Musical Permutation') was rejected due to his political views,. In the same year, he left the university service. The reviewers of the thesis were Heinrich Besseler and Hellmuth Christian Wolff. From 1965 to 1985, Klemm was a freelance musicologist without a permanent position. He was the editor of the piano works of

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and

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as well as of Gustav Mahler's '' Symphony No. 6'' and Hanns Eisler's orchestral suite. At the same time, he published historical works by

Charles Burney Charles Burney (7 April 1726 – 12 April 1814) was an English music historian, composer and musician. He was the father of the writers Frances Burney and Sarah Burney, of the explorer James Burney, and of Charles Burney, a classicist a ...

, Claude Debussy, Anton Felix Schindler and

George Bernard Shaw George Bernard Shaw (26 July 1856 – 2 November 1950), known at his insistence simply as Bernard Shaw, was an Irish playwright, critic, polemicist and political activist. His influence on Western theatre, culture and politics extended from ...

. From 1968, he published a revised version of

Kurt Johnen Kurt Johnen (3 January 1884 – 26 February 1965) was a German pianist, music educator and musicologist. Life Born in Burtscheid, Johnen attended the Gymnasium in Aachen and studied musicology at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin and piano wi ...

's ''Allgemeine Musiklehre''. From 1978 to 1982, he was also editor of the yearbook of . He also worked as a radio programmer for

Radio DDR 2 Radio DDR 2 ( en, Radio GDR 2) was a radio channel in East Germany run by Rundfunk der DDR, created in October 1958. It was a regional service in the morning and at 01:00 local time, broadcast centralized classical music and radio plays produced ...

. In 1985, Klemm became director of the Hanns Eisler Archive at the Academy of Arts, Berlin. He worked there on the Hanns Eisler-Gesamtausgabe. In 1990, he was elected president of the Society for Musicology. In 1990, he was

habilitated Habilitation is the highest university degree, or the procedure by which it is achieved, in many European countries. The candidate fulfills a university's set criteria of excellence in research, teaching and further education, usually including a ...

in Leipzig with a thesis on ''Textkritische Arbeiten zum Selbstverständnis der zweiten Wiener Schule''. He published several works on

music theory Music theory is the study of the practices and possibilities of music. ''The Oxford Companion to Music'' describes three interrelated uses of the term "music theory". The first is the "rudiments", that are needed to understand music notation (ke ...

. The

Neue Musik Neue Musik (English ''new music'', French ''nouvelle musique'') is the collective term for a wealth of different currents in composed Western art music from around 1910 to the present. Its focus is on compositions of 20th century music. It is char ...

of Arnold Schönberg, Anton Webern and

Gustav Mahler Gustav Mahler (; 7 July 1860 – 18 May 1911) was an Austro-Bohemian Romantic composer, and one of the leading conductors of his generation. As a composer he acted as a bridge between the 19th-century Austro-German tradition and the modernism ...

played a major role in this. In the field of

contemporary music Contemporary classical music is classical music composed close to the present day. At the beginning of the 21st century, it commonly referred to the post-1945 modern forms of post-tonal music after the death of Anton Webern, and included serial ...

, he conducted research on composers such as

Alban Berg Alban Maria Johannes Berg ( , ; 9 February 1885 – 24 December 1935) was an Austrian composer of the Second Viennese School. His compositional style combined Romantic lyricism with the twelve-tone technique. Although he left a relatively sma ...

Béla Bartók Béla Viktor János Bartók (; ; 25 March 1881 – 26 September 1945) was a Hungarian composer, pianist, and ethnomusicologist. He is considered one of the most important composers of the 20th century; he and Franz Liszt are regarded as H ...

, Claude Debussy,

Charles Ives Charles Edward Ives (; October 20, 1874May 19, 1954) was an American modernist composer, one of the first American composers of international renown. His music was largely ignored during his early career, and many of his works went unperformed f ...

Max Reger Johann Baptist Joseph Maximilian Reger (19 March 187311 May 1916) was a German composer, pianist, organist, conductor, and academic teacher. He worked as a concert pianist, as a musical director at the Paulinerkirche, Leipzig, Leipzig University ...

, Gustav Mahler, Erik Satie,

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, Arnold Schönberg and Edgar Varèse. The musical styles Minimal music and

New Simplicity New Simplicity (in German, ''Neue Einfachheit'') was a stylistic tendency amongst some of the younger generation of German composers in the late 1970s and early 1980s, reacting against not only the European avant garde of the 1950s and 1960s, but al ...

were also relevant in his considerations. As a music theorist, Klemm corresponded with personalities such as

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, Manfred Bierwisch, Ernst Bloch,

Konrad Boehmer Konrad Boehmer (24 May 1941 – 4 October 2014) was a German-Dutch composer, educator, and writer. Life Boehmer was born in Berlin. A self-declared member of the Darmstadt School, he studied composition in Cologne with Karlheinz Stockhausen and Go ...

Carl Dahlhaus Carl Dahlhaus (10 June 1928 – 13 March 1989) was a German musicologist who was among the leading postwar musicologists of the mid to late 20th-century. A prolific scholar, he had broad interests though his research focused on 19th- and 20th- ...

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Peter Gülke Peter Ludwig Gülke (born 29 April 1934) is a German conductor and musicologist. Biography Born in Weimar, Gülke studied cello and musicology at the Hochschule für Musik Franz Liszt, Weimar. He completed his doctorate in philosophy in Leipzi ...

, Hans G Helms, Uwe Johnson,

Mauricio Kagel Mauricio Raúl Kagel (; 24 December 1931 – 18 September 2008) was an Argentine-German composer. Biography Kagel was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, into an Ashkenazi Jewish family that had fled from Russia in the 1920s . He studied music, his ...

Georg Knepler Georg Knepler (21 December 1906 – 14 January 2003) was an Austrian pianist, conductor and musicologist. Life Born in Vienna, Knepler was a son of the composer and librettist and nephew of the music publisher and impresario . He studied pi ...

Aloys Kontarsky Aloys (14 May 1931 – 22 August 2017) and Alfons (9 October 1932 – 5 May 2010) Kontarsky were German duo-pianist brothers who were associated with a number of important world premieres of contemporary works. They had an international reputatio ...

Erwin Ratz Erwin Ratz (22 December 1898, Graz – 12 December 1973, Vienna) was an Austrian musicologist and music theorist. He is known especially for his work as president of the ''Gustav Mahler Gesellschaft'' and for his book ''Einführung in die musikalisc ...

, Alfred Schnittke,

Rudolf Stephan Rudolf Stephan (3 April 1925 – 29 September 2019) was a German musicologist. Life Stephan was born in Bochum. After studying violin at the conservatory, he entered the Institute of Heidelberg, where he studied musicology at the University unde ...

, and Hans Heinz Stuckenschmidt. With the musicians

Gerd Schenker Gerd Schenker (born 2 June 1948) is a German percussionist. Life Born in Zeulenroda-Triebes, Schenker attended the from 1963 to 1965. From 1965 to 1969 he studied percussion with Otto Reil at the Hochschule für Musik "Hanns Eisler" in Berlin. ...

, Matthias Sannemüller and

Steffen Schleiermacher Steffen Schleiermacher (born Halle, Saxony-Anhalt, Halle, 3 May 1960) is a German composer, pianist, and conducting, conductor.Forum Zeitgenössischer Musik Leipzig The Forum Zeitgenössischer Musik Leipzig ZML'' ''(Forum of Contemporary Music Leipzig)'' is a non-profit organisation situated in Leipzig and an independent cultural organisation for the project-based communication of contemporary music. Descr ...

in 1990. Klemm died in Leipzig at the age of 61.

Honours

* 1978:

Kunstpreis der Stadt Leipzig From 1959 to 1989, the city of Leipzig awarded the Kunstpreis der Stadt Leipzig, which was given for outstanding merits in the artistic field to persons who promoted the reputation of the city beyond the region: architects, visual artists, compos ...

Publications

* ''Der Briefwechsel zwischen Arnold Schönberg und dem Verlag

C. F. Peters Edition Peters is a classical music publisher founded in Leipzig, Germany in 1800. History The company came into being on 1 December 1800 when the Viennese composer Franz Anton Hoffmeister (1754–1812) and the local organist Ambrosius Kühnel ( ...

'', in ''Deutsches Jahrbuch der Musikwissenschaft'', Jg. 15 (1971), pp. 5–66 * '' Hanns Eisler. Für Sie porträtiert''.''Hanns Eisler : für Sie porträtiert von Eberhardt Klemm.''
on WorldCat Leipzig 1973 * ''Zur Geschichte der Fünften Sinfonie von

. Der Briefwechsel zwischen Mahler und C. F. Peters und andere Dokumente'', in ''Jahrbuch Peters'', Jg. 2 (1979), pp. 9–116 * ''Spuren der Avantgarde. Schriften 1955–1991'', Cologne: MusikTexte, 1997, 548 pages * ''alles ist gleichnah zum mittelpunkt'', edited by Thomas Schinköth, 2000 * ''Ossian an Béla. Über Benjamin und Bloch. Aus dem Briefwechsel zwischen Uwe Johnson und Eberhardt und Erika Klemm'', edited by Erdmut Wizisla, in ''Johnson-Jahrbuch'', vol. 11 (2004),

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Klemm, Eberhardt Academic staff of Leipzig University 20th-century German musicologists 1929 births 1991 deaths People from Zwickau