Rudolf Kloiber (14 November 1899 – 12 December 1973) was a German conductor and
musicologist.
Born in
Munich, Kloiber studied
conducting
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, piano,
music theory
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and opera direction at the
University of Music and Performing Arts Munich, as well as
musicology
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at the
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität. In 1928 he received his
doctorate in this subject with a
dissertation about the composer
Christian Cannabich. From 1921 he worked as an opera and concert conductor, from 1935 at the
Theater Regensburg
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and from 1950 to 1958 with the Swabian Symphony Orchestra in
Reutlingen, the later .
He became particularly well known as the author of various music handbooks, which are still very popular today because of their objective and well-founded presentation.
Work
* ''Die dramatischen Ballette von Christian Cannabich.'' Inaugural-Dissertation. 1928 .
* Rudolf Kloiber,
Wulf Konold, Robert Maschka: ''Handbuch der Oper.'' 11th revised edition. Bärenreiter/dtv, Kassel among others/Munich 2006 (1951),
* ''Handbuch der klassischen und romantischen Symphonie.'' 2nd expended edition.
Breitkopf & Härtel, Wiesbaden 1976 (1964),
* ''Handbuch der Symphonischen Dichtung.'' 3rd edition. Breitkopf & Härtel, Wiesbaden 1990 (1967),
* ''Handbuch des Instrumentalkonzerts.''
** Vol. 1: ''Vom Barock zur Klassik.'' Breitkopf & Härtel, Wiesbaden 1972,
** Vol. 2: ''Von der Romantik bis zu den Begründern der Neuen Musik.''
''Handbuch des Instrumentalkonzerts: Von der Romantik bis zu den Begründern der neuen Musik''
on Google Books 3rd revised edition. Breitkopf & Härtel, Wiesbaden 1987 (1973),
References
External links
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Kloiber, Rudolf Johann Nepomuk
on ''
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German conductors (music)
20th-century German musicologists
German non-fiction writers
1899 births
1973 deaths
Musicians from Munich