Fritz Eberhardt Klemm (4 September 1929 – 7 June 1991) was a German

musicologist Musicology is the academic, research-based study of music, as opposed to musical composition or performance. Musicology research combines and intersects with many fields, including psychology, sociology, acoustics, neurology, natural sciences, f ...

and journalist. He was one of the leading

Hanns Eisler Hanns Eisler (6 July 1898 – 6 September 1962) was a German-Austrian composer. He is best known for composing the national anthem of East Germany, for his long artistic association with Bertolt Brecht, and for the scores he wrote for films. The ...

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 Ernst Simon Bloch (; ; July 8, 1885 – August 4, 1977; pseudonyms: Karl Jahraus, Jakob Knerz) was a German Marxist philosopher. Bloch was influenced by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel and Karl Marx, as well as by apocalyptic and religious thinker ...

) at the

University of Leipzig Leipzig University (), 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 December 1409 by Frederick I, Electo ...

. In 1951, he changed to

musicology Musicology is the academic, research-based study of music, as opposed to musical composition or performance. Musicology research combines and intersects with many fields, including psychology, sociology, acoustics, neurology, natural sciences, ...

with Walter Serauky, Hellmuth Christian Wolff and Rudolf Eller 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 ...

, from 1957 to 1966 he was a

lecturer Lecturer is an 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. They may also conduct re ...

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

Claude Debussy Achille Claude Debussy (; 22 August 1862 – 25 March 1918) was a French composer. He is sometimes seen as the first Impressionism in music, Impressionist composer, although he vigorously rejected the term. He was among the most influe ...

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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 classicis ...

, Claude Debussy,

Anton Felix Schindler Anton Felix Schindler (13 June 1795 – 16 January 1864) was an Austrian law clerk and associate, secretary, and early biographer of Ludwig van Beethoven. Life Schindler was born on 13 June 1795 in Medlov. He moved to Vienna in 1813 to study l ...

and

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. From 1968, he published a revised version of Kurt Johnen'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. In 1985, Klemm became director of the Hanns Eisler Archive at the

Academy of Arts, Berlin The Academy of Arts () is a state arts institution in Berlin, Germany. The task of the Academy is to promote art, as well as to advise and support the states of Germany. The academy's predecessor organization was founded in 1696 by Elector F ...

. 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 Germany, France, Italy, Poland and some other European and non-English-speaking countries. The candidate fulfills a university's set criteria of excellen ...

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 theoretical frameworks for understanding the practices and possibilities of music. ''The Oxford Companion to Music'' describes three interrelated uses of the term "music theory": The first is the "Elements of music, ...

. The

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and

Gustav Mahler Gustav Mahler (; 7 July 1860 – 18 May 1911) was an Austro-Bohemian Romantic music, 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 ...

played a major role in this. In the field of

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, he conducted research on composers such as

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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 Hunga ...

, Claude Debussy,

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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, a musical director at the Paulinerkirche, Leipzig, Leipzig University Chu ...

, Gustav Mahler, Erik Satie,

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, Arnold Schoenberg and

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. The musical styles

Minimal music Minimal music (also called minimalism)"Minimalism in music has been defined as an aesthetic, a style, and a technique, each of which has been a suitable description of the term at certain points in the development of minimal music. However, two ...

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

Theodor W. Adorno Theodor W. Adorno ( ; ; born Theodor Ludwig Wiesengrund; 11 September 1903 – 6 August 1969) was a German philosopher, musicologist, and social theorist. He was a leading member of the Frankfurt School of critical theory, whose work has com ...

, 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 ...

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, Ulrich Dibelius,

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, Hans G Helms,

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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 ...

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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 Hans Heinz Stuckenschmidt (1 November 1901 – 15 August 1988) was a German composer, musicologist, and historian and critic of music. Life Stuckenschmidt was born in Strasbourg. At as early an age as 19, he was the Berlin-based music criti ...

. With the musicians Gerd Schenker,

Matthias Sannemüller Matthias Sannemüller (born 2 September 1951) is a German violist. Life Born in Leipzig, Sannemüller was born in 1951 as son of the concertmaster Horst Sannemüller and the opera singer Philine Fischer. In his youth he learned piano and viol ...

and

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, he founded the Forum Zeitgenössischer Musik Leipzig 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

und dem Verlag C. F. Peters'', in ''Deutsches Jahrbuch der Musikwissenschaft'', Jg. 15 (1971), pp. 5–66 * ''

. 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

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