Udo Fritz Peter Klement (born 12 January 1936) is 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

music critic '' The Oxford Companion to Music'' defines music criticism as "the intellectual activity of formulating judgments on the value and degree of excellence of individual works of music, or whole groups or genres". In this sense, it is a branch of m ...

Life

Klement, non-denominational, was born in 1936 in Dresden as the son of a gear cutter and an agricultural worker and saleswoman. He attended the Dresdner Kreuzschule and the Oberschule Dresden West

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1954). From 1954 to 1958 he studied music education and German language and literature at the philosophical faculty of the Karl-Marx-University Leipzig. In 1958 he passed the

Staatsexamen The ("state examination" or "exam by state"; pl.: ''Staatsexamina'') is a German government licensing examination that future physicians, dentists, physical therapists, teachers, research librarians, archivists, pharmacists, food chemists, psyc ...

for the teaching profession in music (at the 12-class secondary school). Afterwards he was a teacher of music and German, in 1964 he acquired the teaching qualification for German (up to grade 10). From 1966 to 1969 he was a research assistant for music education at the . In 1969 he was awarded a doctorate by Paul Willert with the musicological Dissertation A "Das Musiktheater

Carl Orff Carl Heinrich Maria Orff (; 10 July 1895 – 29 March 1982) was a German composer and music educator, who composed the cantata ''Carmina Burana (Orff), Carmina Burana'' (1937). The concepts of his Orff Schulwerk, Schulwerk were influential for ...

s. Untersuchungen zu einem bürgerlichen Kunstwerk" to the degree of Dr. phil. The other reviewers of the work were Walther Siegmund-Schultze and the Orff student Paul Kurzbach. He then became senior research assistant for music education at the Department of Musicology, section Theory and Methodology of Music Education, and in 1972 in the section Historical and Systematic Musicology in the Cultural Studies and German Studies Section, and in 1976 in the Cultural and Artistic Sciences Section. In 1976 he received the '. In 1977 he received his "Promotion B" as Dr. sc. phil. in musicology (topic: "The importance of the dramatic in the orchestral music of the German Democratic Republic"). Besides Walther Siegmund-Schultze, this time Ernst Hermann Meyer and Hella Brock were among the reviewers. In 1991 the academic degree was changed to Dr. phil. habil. From 1977 he was a lecturer, from 1980 to 1993

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for

music history Music history, sometimes called historical musicology, is a highly diverse subfield of the broader discipline of musicology that studies music from a historical point of view. In theory, "music history" could refer to the study of the history of ...

at the Section for Cultural and Art Studies of the Karl Marx University Leipzig. He was then dismissed and went into early retirement. In addition to music history, his main areas of research were the dramaturgy of classical

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, the history of musicology, music analysis and criticism, and

symphonic music An orchestra (; ) is a large instrumental ensemble typical of classical music, which combines instruments from different families. There are typically four main sections of instruments: * String instruments, such as the violin, viola, cello, a ...

. From 1967 to 1969 he was a managing assistant at the Institute for Musicology and from 1973 to 1975 he was head of the teaching staff Music/German. From 1981 to 1985 he was Section Director and from 1986 to 1990 Head of the Department of Musicology and Music Education. Among his academic students were among others

Ulrike Liedtke Ulrike Liedtke (''née'' Nehrdich,''Musikakademie Rheinsberg Gesellschaft mit beschränkter Haftung, Rheinsberg''. In ''Handelsregister-Bekanntmachungen'' dated 4 February 1995. 17 November 1958) is a German musicologist and politician (Social De ...

and Christoph Sramek. From 1973 to 1989 he was a member of the , and from 1982 to 1989 he was a member of the central board. He was repeatedly a member of the musicology working group of the Scientific Advisory Board for Cultural, Artistic and Linguistic Studies at the Ministry of Higher and Technical Education (East Germany). From 1986 to 1989 he was chairman of the Central Expert Commission for Music Education at the

Council of Ministers of East Germany The Council of Ministers (, ) was the executive organ of the Volkskammer, People's Chamber of the East Germany, German Democratic Republic from November 1950 until the country was German reunification, reunified on 3 October 1990.Starcevi, Nesha ...

. Klement was a permanent contributor and music critic for the daily newspaper '. From 1973 to 1989 he contributed articles on the "GDR musical development" for the ''Yearbook of the Great Soviet Encyclopedia'' in Moscow. From 1973 he edited musical keywords for all encyclopaedias of the

Bibliographisches Institut The was a German publishing company founded 1826 in Gotha (town), Gotha by Joseph Meyer (publisher), Joseph Meyer. It moved to Hildburghausen in 1828 and to Leipzig in 1874. Its production over the years includes such well-known titles as ( ...

in Leipzig.

Awards

* 1965: * 1968: (Bronze) * 1978: Pestalozzi-Medaille für treue Dienste (Silber) * 1978: Ehrennadel des Komponistenverbandes (Bronze) * 1983: Kunstpreis der Stadt Leipzig für Kunstkritik * 1986: Ehrennadel des Komponistenverbandes (Silber) * 1988: * 1990: Pestalozzi-Medaille für treue Dienste (Gold)

Publications

* ''Das Musiktheater Carl Orffs''(''Beiträge zur musikwissenschaftlichen Forschung in der DDR''. Bd. 14). Deutscher Verlag für Musik, Leipzig 1982. * ''Die Bedeutung des Dramaturgischen in der Orchestermusik der Deutschen Demokratischen Republik.''''Die Bedeutung des Dramaturgischen in der Orchestermusik der Deutschen Demokratischen Republik.''
on WorldCat

References

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Udo Klement
in * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Klement, Udo 20th-century German musicologists German music historians German music critics Academic staff of Leipzig University 1936 births Living people Writers from Dresden People educated at the Kreuzschule