Rudolf Kloiber (14 November 1899 – 12 December 1973) was a German conductor and
musicologist
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 m ...
.
Born in
Munich
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, Kloiber studied
conducting, piano,
music theory and opera direction at the
University of Music and Performing Arts Munich, as well as
musicology at the
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität
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. In 1928 he received his
doctorate
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in this subject with a
dissertation about the composer
Christian Cannabich
Johann Christian Innocenz Bonaventura Cannabich (28 December 1731 (bapt.) – 20 January 1798), was a German violinist, composer, and Kapellmeister of the Classical era. A composer of some 200 works, he continued the legacy of Johann Stamit ...
. From 1921 he worked as an opera and concert conductor, from 1935 at the
Theater Regensburg and from 1950 to 1958 with the Swabian Symphony Orchestra in
Reutlingen
Reutlingen (; Swabian: ''Reitlenga'') is a city in Baden-Württemberg, Germany. It is the capital of the eponymous district of Reutlingen. As of June 2018, it has a population of 115,818.
Reutlingen has a university of applied sciences, which ...
, 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
Wulf Konold (29 June 1946 – 24 June 2010) was a German musicologist, dramaturge and theatre director.
Life
Born in Langenau near Ulm, From 1966 to 1973 Konold studied musicology, German studies and History at the Christian-Albrechts-Univer ...
, 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
Breitkopf & Härtel is the world's oldest music publishing house. The firm was founded in 1719 in Leipzig by Bernhard Christoph Breitkopf.
The catalogue currently contains over 1,000 composers, 8,000 works and 15,000 music editions or books on ...
, 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